VCU Molecular Education
Education and Training
The Molecular Diagnostics Division offers a two-week Molecular Pathology
Practicum once every month at their clinical diagnostics laboratory on
the MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University; teaching knowledge
and skills.
Our two week Practicum provides you with instruction, skills development
and hands-on experience in clinical laboratory molecular techniques. Topics
and techniques include:
- Methods to isolate DNA from clinical samples
- Preparation of nucleic acid probe
- Molecular hybridization
- Polymerase chain reaction
- Southern hybridization analysis.