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Overview • Clinical laboratory professions• History of clinical laboratories• Requirements for laboratory
professionals• Allied health professions• Responsibilities• Professionalism• Employment
History
• Origins of “medical technology”
• Early medical laboratories
• Modern clinical laboratories
• Twenty-first–century laboratories
Role of Laboratory Professional
• Allied healthcare partner
• Work in many different settings
• Work at various levels of responsibility
Change in Certification Agency
• Effective 2010
• ASCP Board of Certification (BOC)
• See Tables 1-6, 1-7
Education
• Programs– Accreditation
• Requirements– Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS)
or Medical Technologist (MT)– Medical Laboratory Technician (MLT)
Other AlliedHealth Personnel
• Phlebotomist• Medical Assistant• Physician Office Laboratory (POL) Technician• Point-of-care (POC) Technician• Other
Other Allied Health Personnel
• Examples:– Paramedic– Nursing staff– Clinical laboratory assistant– Diagnostic molecular scientist
Ethics
• Maintain– High standards of practice– Honesty, integrity, and reliability
• Duty to– Patients– Profession and colleagues– Society– See Table 1-8
Professionalism
• Desirable qualities
• Patient privacy– Confidentiality
• Interactions with patients