Blue Mountain Community College

Many opportunities await those choosing careers in medicine and science. One of the most rewarding is medical laboratory technology. As members of the medical team, technicians work side by side with medical technologists and pathologists and have relatively little contact with patients. Medical laboratory technicians (MLTs) perform a great variety of scientific laboratory procedures, utilizing automated computerized instrumentation, all of which aid in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of disease.

• In addition to employment in medical laboratories, graduates pursue positions in research, molecular biology, industry and veterinary laboratories, as well as medical supply and equipment sales. For additional descriptive information visit the following two national Web sites at http://www.ascls.org/ and http://www.ascp.org/bor/.

Medical laboratory technology is one of the most rapidly expanding health care fields. As a medical laboratory technician, you will play an increasingly important role in health care delivery. The MLT Program provides extensive training, including a clinical internship with supervised work experience. This qualifies graduates to run clinical tests required by physicians to make life-affecting decisions in patient care. Make a decisions for your life today!

In a recent report, the bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates a 17 percent growth rate iin the field of clinical laboratory science. (For the period 1998 to 2008 the BLS projects 53,000 new jobs in the field, 40,000 vacancies, and 93,000 incremental positions to be filled.