Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 048 - Health, Department of
Sub-Agency 0013 - Clinical Laboratories, Licensure of
Chapter 2 - LICENSURE
Section 2-2 - Qualifications for Laboratory Personnel

(i) A physician licensed by the Board of Medical Examiners; or is a Ph.D. with a major in chemical, physical, or biological science and is certified by the American Board of Medical Microbiology, the American Board of Clinical Chemistry, the American Board of Bioanalysts, or another national accrediting board in a laboratory specialty acceptable to HHS, and has at least one (1) year of general laboratory training and experience.

(ii) Document continuing education of a minimum ten (10) contact hours per year or twenty (20) contact hours per two (2) years appropriate to specific need.

(i) Holds a master's degree from an accredited institution with an undergraduate degree in a laboratory science and have at least two (2) years pertinent laboratory experience; or is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist and have two (2) years of pertinent laboratory experience; or has earned a bachelors's degree in one (1) of the chemical, physical, or biological sciences and has at least two (2) years of clinical laboratory experience; or has successfully completed three (3) years (ninety (90) semester hours or equivalents) in an accredited college or university with the following distribution of courses:

(ii) Document continuing education of a minimum ten (10) contact hours per year or twenty (20) contact hours per two (2) years appropriate to specific need.

(i) Holds a bachelor's degree in medical technology from an accredited college or university; or has earned a bachelor's degree in the chemical, physical, or biological sciences and has two (2) years of clinical laboratory experience and/or training; or has successfully completed three (3) years (ninety (90) semester hours or equivalent) from an accredited college or university with the following distribution:

(ii) Document continuing education of a minimum ten (10) contact hours per year or twenty (20) contact hours per two (2) years appropriate to specific need.

(i) Has successfully completed sixty (60) semester hours including chemistry, biology, and medical laboratory techniques at an accredited institution; or has successfully attained a science related associated degree and has one (1) year pertinent laboratory experience and/or training; or is a high school graduate or equivalent and has successfully completed an official military medical laboratory procedure course of at least fifty (50) weeks duration and has held the military occupation speciality of Medical Laboratory Specialist.

(ii) Document continuing education of a minimum five (5) contact hours per year or ten (10) contact hours per two (2) years appropriate to specific need.

(i) High school graduate or equivalent and has completed one (1) year in a medical technician program or other medical assistant program; or is a high school graduate or equivalent and has two (2) years of pertinent laboratory experience as a trainee with documentation of training.

(ii) Document continuing of a minimum five (5) contact hours per year or ten (10) contact hours per two (2) years in a clinical laboratory discipline.

(i) High school graduate or equivalent and has documentation of training pertinent for specimen collection in the current laboratory position.