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The National Credentialing Agency for Laboratory Personnel (NCA) was a professional association for medical laboratory professionals.. It was founded 1978 by members of American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science to enable members of the medical laboratory profession to control the certification process.
A Medical Laboratory Scientist (MLS) or Clinical Laboratory Scientist (CLS) or Medical Technologist (MT) is a licensed Healthcare professional who performs diagnostic testing of body fluids, blood and other body tissue. The Medical Technologist is tasked with releasing the patient results to aid in further treatment.
Medical laboratory assistants (MLAs) also known as clinical laboratory assistants (CLA) or clinical assistants (CA) prepare, and in some cases process samples within a pathology laboratory. They also utilise pre-analytical systems in order for biomedical scientists (BMS) or Medical Laboratory Scientific Officers to process the biochemical tests ...
Clinical laboratory in a hospital setting showing several automated analysers.. A medical laboratory or clinical laboratory is a laboratory where tests are conducted out on clinical specimens to obtain information about the health of a patient to aid in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. [1]
In 1962, qualifications for the clinical laboratory scientist (medical technologist) changed to include a baccalaureate degree and a new category of laboratory technician emerged. [3] Also in the 1960s, ASMT joined the International Association of Medical Laboratory Technologists. In the 1970s ASMT grew considerably in numbers (over 30,000 in ...
Clinical pathology is a medical specialty that is concerned with the diagnosis of disease based on the laboratory analysis of bodily fluids, such as blood, urine, and tissue homogenates or extracts using the tools of chemistry, microbiology, hematology, molecular pathology, and Immunohaematology.
A biomedical scientist is a scientist trained in biology, particularly in the context of medical laboratory sciences or laboratory medicine.These scientists work to gain knowledge on the main principles of how the human body works and to find new ways to cure or treat disease by developing advanced diagnostic tools or new therapeutic strategies.
The Doctor of Clinical Laboratory Science (DCLS) is a professional degree in clinical laboratory science in the United States for medical laboratory scientists. [1] [2] The DCLS is board eligible and qualifies as a CLIA high complexity laboratory director (HCLD). There are three programs: [2] Rutgers, New Jersey