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Education Of The Medical Technologist

Being a professional healthcare person, education of the Medical Technologist enables him to perform various activities like analytic and diagnostic tests on the human body fluids like urine, blood, sputum, cerebrospinal fluid, stool, pericardial fluid, peritoneal fluid and synovial fluid. The medical technologists perform their work in the clinical labs at the doctor's clinic, hospitals, biotechnology industry and reference labs.

Education of the medical technologist includes a 4-year degree programme. In this duration, the student is supposed to attend the classroom courses for a period of three years and then the last or the fourth year is the year of clinical rotations or internship. This combination is known as 3+1 program. Along with this combination, other choices are also available to the students including 2+2 and 4+1 programme.

During the clinical rotations, they have to work under a trained and an experienced doctor. Thus, the student gets first hand experience in learning each and every discipline of the laboratory, which till then he has only learnt theoretically. He has to make diagnostic testings under the supervision of an able doctor in a functioning laboratory. He is supposed to work for 40 hours in a week for a total period of 20-26 weeks. In this period, he experiences his work as a full0-time employee.

A medical technologist after completing this full course gets the degree called the "Bachelor's Degree in Medical Technology" i.e., clinical laboratory science. In Canada, they offer a three year diploma programme along with seven semesters. Out of these, two are unpaid internship. The student graduates to get qualified as a Medical Laboratory Technologist (MLT) have to take their standard examinations offered by their respective colleges. Some of the MLT's may go forward for receiving their Bachelors of Science degree after completing their diploma course. They are a number of university programs available that associate with the college programme and thus allow the students graduate diploma as well as degree.

The education of medical technologists makes them generalists in all the respective areas of the laboratory. But there are some medical technologists who receive some additional training in some special subjects including immunology, microbiology, virology, toxicology, immunohematology, and many more.

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