MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST

Correct Name of the Career

o Medical Technologist
Education and/or Training Required
o Important skills include critical thinking, problem solving,
communication.
o General high school courses should include biology and chemistry.
o Most universities provide a bachelors degree four-year program in
clinical laboratory science or allied health technologies.
o Pursue certification in a specialization through an organization that
administers your specialty.
Responsibilities and Daily Activities
o Responsibilities and daily activities include preparing tissue
sample cultures, monitoring data accuracy programs, microscopically examining
slides of body fluids, cross-matching blood for transfusions, analyzing blood and
urine for toxins, delivering test results to physicians.
o Specializations include immunology, microbiology, molecular
biology, and cytotechnology.
o A medical technologist can work in hospitals or other medical
facilities or independently run labs.
Salary Range
o mid-rage = $59,000- $60,520
o These values are for the United States of America.
o These salaries are highly variable depending on quality of work
and demand for the job.
Documentation of Sources
o Study.com. (2015). Medical Technologist: Job Description, Duties,
and Requirements. [accessed 22 February 2017]. Retrieved from
http://study.com/articles/Medical_Technologist_Job_Description_Duties_and_Re
quirements.html

Self-Reflection
o I had not heard of this career before, however I have heard of
medical technicians.
o I would enjoy the daily activity of seeing new cases and analyzing
them in extreme detail. I like how such simple substances are used to reveal great
things in this career.
o It does not require a lot of post graduate work. This career only
requires a bachelors degree.
 o I do not think I would enjoy this job as I would want more variety
in my day to day work, not only attempting to identify things with a few specific
processes.