Graduate Program
Clinical Chemistry Program

The Clinical Chemistry program is designed to provide advanced scientific and management training to prepare participants for leadership positions in hospital, industrial, or other private analytical laboratories. The program has two tracks: Research and Administration. The Research track is designed for students who wish to emphasize development of research capabilities. This track requires completion of a research thesis and leads to the M.A. degree. The Administration track is designed for students who wish to combine their scientific training with some exposure to matters of administration in health/medical/laboratory environments; this track leads to the M.S. degree. Both tracks require a minimum of 36 graduate credits.
The following courses, 27 credits in all, are required of all students in the Clinical Chemistry program:

• Chemistry 531 Mechanistic Organic Chemistry
• Chemistry 550 Biochemical Structure and Function
• Chemistry 551 Biocatalysis and Metabolism
• Chemistry 554 Biochemistry of Disease
• Chemistry 555 Chemical Toxicology
• Chemistry 556 Clinical Quality Control
• Chemistry 565 Instrumental Electronics
• Chemistry 570 Advanced Analytical Chemistry
• Chemistry 571 Analytical Methods

While registered for Chemistry 556, the student will participate in a clinical affiliation. This course will ordinarily be taken as the last course in the student’s program. Students take nine elective credits. Electives may be taken from any of the following categories:

• Thesis: Students in the Research track will take two to six credits of thesis work (Chemistry 599). The number of thesis credits will be determined in consultation with the student’s mentor, depending on the scope of the thesis project. Normally, six thesis credits are devoted to the project.
• Students in the Administration track should take HAD 500, Health Care Organization and Administration, plus two additional three-credit courses in Health Administration (HAD) or Human Resources Administration (HRA), chosen after consultation with their mentor and the Director of the HRA or HAD program.