A new paradigm for clinical laboratory science education: a case study for survival and growth.
Clinical laboratory science (CLS) education programs are faced with declining numbers of qualified students and resources. A solution is to move toward a new education paradigm. The new paradigm emphasizes cooperation between institutions, asynchronized learning and advising, the use of technology for teaching and advising and the decentralization of the teaching process. This article presents a case study describing how 1 CLS program was able to go from a scarcity mentality to an abundance mentality by implementing the new paradigm.
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University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Department of Pathology, Grand Forks 58202-9037, USA.
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