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Medical technology is a health care profession in which medical technologists (clinical laboratory scientists) perform laboratory procedures used for the promotion of health and the diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of diseases. Technical skills needed to carry out the tasks include microscopy, venipuncture, manipulation of various labware, and operation of automated instruments. Results of these procedures are essential to the delivery of quality health care. The field is broad and involves several disciplines: chemistry, hematology, immunohematology (blood banking), immunology, and microbiology.
Medical technology is a constantly evolving profession. The continued growth of the health care industry and the increased number of other career opportunities has raised the demand for clinical laboratory scientists. Employment opportunities exist in hospitals, clinics, physicians’ office/labs, reference labs, DNA labs, research, education, forensic medicine, industry, consulting, sales, marketing, veterinary medicine, and many more areas.
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