The Clinical Laboratory Science program at Mercy College consists of three years of general education, basic and advanced science courses, followed by a clinical year that combines professional internships at regional hospital clinical laboratories with didactic coursework.The first three-year sequence of college-based courses prepares students for the clinical rotations, but also overlaps substantially with the requirements for a degree in biology. The fourth year of the CLS program consists of a combination of clinical courses on campus and full-day hospital based clinical rotations.