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Educational Requirements for the School of Medical Technology
To attend a school of Medical Technology, students must have a bachelor’s degree with the chemistry, biology, and math requirements or be enrolled in a 3 plus 1 program with an affiliated college. In the 3 plus 1 program you attend a college for three years and your final year is at the school of Medical Technology. When you are finished you will have a bachelor’s degree and a degree from the school of Medical Technology.
Clinical Training
The clinical training will be one of the most challenging years of your education. In some schools the students spend the first 6 months in the classroom learning theory and then they spend the next 6 months in the clinical laboratory for hands on training. Other schools have a student laboratory, where students learn about the tests before they enter the laboratory. The students will also learn to perform phlebotomy procedures on patients. Other schools may vary in structure and I am not sure if all schools teach phlebotomy. If you find anything different please post in the comment section.
ASCP Certification
In Pennsylvania you are required to be certified by ASCP or the American Society of Clinical Pathology. If you are certified after January 1, 2004, then you are required to participate in the International Certification Maintenance Program every three years in order to retain your certification. This is a continuing education program that will help you to excel in your career. Take a look at this link for more detailed information. http://www.ascp.org/
Comment Policy
I encourage you to leave comments. I will review all comments before they are posted. I'll reply to all questions within a week, and errors in the posts will be acknowledged in the comment area. Feel free to disagree with my points if there is need for disagreement, but keep in mind that all off-topic comments, disparaging comments, comments with more than one link, and comments that include profanity will be deleted. 
To my current students:
ReplyDeleteI realize that this welcome post may be redundant or knowledge that you already have, but I intended it for those students who do not have this knowledge yet. I hope that the blog will be a great discussion area and a place to explore new topics.
Hey Julie,
ReplyDeleteLooks like a good start to your blog. Thanks for including us (MT students).
To start, I have a quick question. Do you know if there is a schedule for when and where we can take our Boards test for certification following graduation?
Regarding the question about the registry. Go to www.ascp.org, on top of page choose student, and then select laboratory science students. From there there is a number of selection for information about the registry.
ReplyDeleteA couple questions...
ReplyDelete1) Do you know of any good Parasitology or Mycology Atlases, with pictures and descriptions?
The other 2 have to do with things that came up with class recently.
2) When testing if a type II hypersensitivity reaction occurred we learned you can use free plasma hemoglobin levels. Wouldn't haptoglobin levels be a better estimation if what we are testing is intravascular hemolysis?
3) Why is the bacteria Bacteroides fragilis catalase positive if it is an anaerobe? Can't is just break down the oxidizing agents (i.e peroxide)?
Hello, I did my clinical introduction in Urinalysis today and learned about using the blood gas instrument in cardiac surgery for monitoring blood gas levels. Is there a way for me to tag along and observe during one of these surgeries? After class ofcourse..
ReplyDeleteDuring your clinical rotation in chemistry you will be able to observe an open heart surgery. If you would like to observe sooner than that we would have to arrange something. Just so you know here is some information about when the surgeries usually occur. The surgeries start by 8:00 or 9:00 AM and are usually finished by 12:30 or 1:00 PM and usually there is only 1 or 2 at most in one day. Also the routine cases are done Monday through Friday and sometimes there are days that we do not have any scheduled. Let me know what you want to do so that we can arrange something.
ReplyDeleteI hope every users will read this blog. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteExcellent, balanced and a very well calculated article. Well done Julie.
ReplyDeleteYou have some really good ideas in this article Julie. Thanks for sharing.
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