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National Report Card

The CSMLS provides, collects and reports data on the examination performance for accredited medical laboratory programs in Canada. The report specifies how many candidates from each program challenged the CSMLS certification examination and the pass rate (the percentage of candidates that passed the exam) for each individual program.

The purpose in releasing this data is two-fold:

  1. To strengthen CSMLS’s accountability to the membership and to other key stakeholders for the certification programs for which the CSMLS is wholly responsible.
  2. To provide a tool for education programs to monitor and analyze the impact of program change when compared to their peer group, as well as a resource when working with administration and government to address future program change.

In compliance with federal privacy laws, the information is provided in aggregate form and does not include any identifying information of individual examination candidates. Only programs with 5 candidates or more in a given exam session are included in the National Report Card.

In order to provide valid comparisons of graduates from EQual™ accredited Canadian training programs, the report only includes performance data of first-time examination candidates. It does not include any supplemental exam candidates’ results, or data from other exam candidates, such as bridging programs or prior learning assessment eligibility. For this information, please scroll to table at the bottom of this webpage.

This report contains exam performance data from the last three sessions. 

Looking for previous years? Check out the National Report Card Archives

 

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Latest Session: October 2023

Year Average

All Data Average

 Required Score to Pass [Angoff] 
October 2023June 2023February 2023
65.5%65.8%65.4%
National Report Card
 October 2023June 2023February 2023
[11] College of the North Atlantic (CNA)NC95.7% (22/23)NC
[12] Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)NC75% (15/20)NR
[13] New Brunswick Community College (NBCC)NCNC58.3% (7/12)
[14] Oulton CollegeNCNC40.0% (10/25)
[15-01] College communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) Campus de DieppeNCNCNR
[15-02] College communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick (CCNB) Campus d'EdmundstonNCNCNR
[20] Dawson CollegeNC100% (23/23)NC
[22] Cégep de RimouskiNCNCNC
[30] Cégep de I`OutaouaisNCNCNC
[32] Cambrian CollegeNR63.6% (21/33)71.4% (5/7)
[43] St. Clair CollegeNC96% (24/25)NR
[44] St. Lawrence CollegeNC100% (11/11)100% (17/17)
[45] The Michener Institute of Education at UHNNCNR88.4% (61/69)
[46] University of Ontario Institute of TechnologyNR88.9% (24/27)NC
[51] Red River College PolytechnicNCNCNR
[61] Saskatchewan PolytechnicNCNR81.3% (26/32)
[71] Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)100% (27/27)NCNR
[72] Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT)NC86% (43/50)NC
[73] University of Alberta91.7% (22/24)NCNC
[81] British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)NR100% (43/43)NC
[85] College of New Caledonia (CNC)NC86.4% (19/22)NC
Nationwide96.1% (49/51)88.4% (245/277)77.8% (126/162)

Legend:
[Institution Number] Institution
Pass Rate (Passes / Attempts)
NR = Not Reportable: Training programs with less than five (5) exam candidates attending an exam session will not be reported; the data is not statistically significant.

NC = No Candidates: Training program did not have any candidates challenge this exam session (information available since 2017).

Legend:
[Institution Number] Institution
Pass Rate (Passes / Attempts)
NR = Not Reportable: Training programs with less than five (5) exam candidates attending an exam session will not be reported; the data is not statistically significant.

Exam Performance - 5 year aggregate pass rate,
all PLA attempts and EQual accredited program second and third attempts

Candidate Grouping 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019
PLA General MLT Attempts
MLT PLA first attempt (00) 52.6% (83 / 158) 46.7% (50 / 107) 59.5% (44 / 74) 42.7% (47 / 110) 32.8% (38 / 116)
MLT PLA second and third attempts (98) 41.9% (36 / 86) 37.2% (29 / 78) 44.1% (30 / 68) 37.0% (37 / 100) 36.2% (38 / 105)
General MLT Program Attempts
MLT Second and third attempts (99) 54.2% (52 / 96) 44.4% (40 / 90) 53.0% (35 / 66) 64.1% (41 / 64) 65.4% (17 / 26)
PLA MLA Attempts
MLA PLA first attempt (00) 83.3% (60 / 72) 77.2% (44 / 57) 76.1% (35 / 46) 72.1% (31 / 43) 75.6% (31 / 41)
MLA PLA second and third attempts(98) 75.0% (3 / 4) 50.0% (3 / 6) 88.9% (8 / 9) 44.4% (4 / 9) 12.5% (1 / 8)
MLA Program Attempts
MLA Second and third attempts (99) 43.2% (16 / 37) 50.0% (23 / 46) 58.3% (28 / 48) 44.3% (31 / 70) 56.3% (45 / 80)

 

Indigenous Land Acknowledgement : We respectfully acknowledge the CSMLS office, located in Hamilton, Ontario, is situated upon the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Mississauga Nation, Anishinaabe Peoples, and the Neutral Peoples. This land is covered by the Dish With One Spoon wampum, which is a treaty between the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe to share and care for the resources around the Great Lakes. We further acknowledge that this land is covered by the Between the Lakes Treaty No. 3, 1792, between the Crown and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation.

 

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