Clinical laboratory professionals
are in great demand!
You can have:
Multiple employment opportunities
immediately after graduation
Flexibility
in working hours and shifts
Highly versatile
skills that translate into an unlimited choice of practice settings
An excellent
background for advancement to careers in research, medicine
and biotechnology
Important Work!
Clinical Laboratory professionals
are vital members of the healthcare team
Over 70% of objective information
used in diagnosis and treatment decisions made by physicians comes from laboratory
testing
Whether a physician
has a child with a fever and doesn't know the cause, or a car accident victim
who needs a transfusion, laboratory professionals provide crucial services
that help save lives
Modern medicine could not function
without clinical laboratory professionals
Join a Large Component of Health
Care!
Clinical laboratory
professionals are the third largest group of health professionals
after doctors and nurses, with a quarter of a million working in clinical
laboratories nationwide
There are over
a thousand different clinical laboratory tests
Over 7 billion
clinical laboratory tests are performed annually in 171,000 laboratories
in the US
Job Ratings
According
to Jobs Rated Almanac by Les Krantz (1999), medical technologists and
medical lab technicians ranked 16 and 18 in a list of 250 jobs
They
also ranked 3rd and 4th in the healthcare and medicine occupational category.
The positions were scored on factors such as salary, stress levels,
work environment, outlook, security and physical demands.
