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Special issues of the trade journal included the education issue, National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week issue, industry outlook issue, new graduate issue and the annual safety issue. [1] The publication also conducted a biannual salary survey of laboratory professionals in conjunction with Advance for Administrators of the Laboratory. [2]
The National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA) was a professional association for medical laboratory professionals. It was founded 1978 by members of American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science to enable members of the medical laboratory profession to control the certification process.
A Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) or Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) or Medical Technologist (MT) is a licensed Healthcare professional who performs diagnostic testing of body fluids, blood and other body tissue. The Medical Technologist is tasked with releasing the patient results to aid in further treatment.
The American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP), formerly known as the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, is a professional association based in Chicago, Illinois, encompassing 130,000 pathologists and laboratory professionals.
The United States has a documented shortage of working laboratory professionals. For example, as of 2016 vacancy rates for Medical Laboratory Scientists ranged from 5% to 9% for various departments. The decline is primarily due to retirements, and to at-capacity educational programs that cannot expand which limits the number of new graduates.
It took outcry from affected communities, medical professionals, and activists before the U.S. and international health community took major action to combat the growing epidemic. The first public ...
In 1962, qualifications for the clinical laboratory scientist (medical technologist) changed to include a baccalaureate degree and a new category of laboratory technician emerged. [3] Also in the 1960s, ASMT joined the International Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists. In the 1970s ASMT grew considerably in numbers (over 30,000 in ...
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