| I'm doing academic upgrading and they I will be doing that work. There are two different fields represented in medical laboratorys commonly. One is a medical assistant who obtains, preps, and processes patients. Medical technologists can be asked to do that too depending on the lab. However it's medical lab technologists that process and interpret tests. Hmmm in the hollywood way think of it as some of the CSI people are medical technologists. They put things under scopes, mix them with goop and examine them, etc and they reach conclusions based on the results. They turn over those conclusions to the investigatory officer. In regular medical terms that would be the requesting doctor. So they give their findings to the doctor but may also suggest/request further tests before they reach their conclusions.
You'd be suprised what technologists have to do with computers these days. I was told the bulk of work is babysitting machines and data entry once we've interpreted what the diagnostic machines spit out or what we observe in manual lab tests. Lab tech's can be elevated to certain positions from their initial. Some of these are desk jobs. They supervise people below them and yes they have have to do data entery and reports that are quite different from the people below them. Also if you take further training you can go into a specialty feild. Medical labortory technologists is considered an "entry" feild. From it you can hop to other careers. Once I'm done I'll work for 2-3 yrs in the field. Then I will return to school and study forensics and criminology so I can get work in a police lab or research lab.
Here is a clicky on the course I'll be taking. It actually isn't a link to the school site(try here for that). It is instead a link to career description and related fields which shows a few graps as well on some facts on that career.(graphs are bottom of page) |
