Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care Environment
Health care occupies a distinct niche in an economy struggling to recover from recession. Professions related to the care of patients are thought to be relatively resistant to downturns, and thus become attractive to students typically drawn to more lucrative pursuits. Currently, a higher profile fo...
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| description | Health care occupies a distinct niche in an economy struggling to recover from recession. Professions related to the care of patients are thought to be relatively resistant to downturns, and thus become attractive to students typically drawn to more lucrative pursuits. Currently, a higher profile for clinical laboratory technology among college students and those considering career change results in larger and better prepared applicant pools. However, after decades of contraction marked by closing of programs, prospective students encounter an educational system without the capacity or vigor to meet their needs. Here discussed are some principles and proposals to allow universities, partnering with health-care providers, government agencies, and other stake-holders to develop new programs, or reenergize existing ones to serve our students and patients. Principles include academic rigor in biomedical and clinical science, multiple points of entry for students, flexibility in format, cost effectiveness, career ladders and robust partnerships. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dfd7d9d1c9754477adfb76ccfbe8be402022-12-21T20:45:04ZengAmerican Society for MicrobiologyJournal of Microbiology & Biology Education1935-78771935-78852012-01-0113215015410.1128/jmbe.v13i2.416Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care EnvironmentRegina Linder0Medical Laboratory Sciences Program, Hunter College of CUNY, New York, NY 10010Health care occupies a distinct niche in an economy struggling to recover from recession. Professions related to the care of patients are thought to be relatively resistant to downturns, and thus become attractive to students typically drawn to more lucrative pursuits. Currently, a higher profile for clinical laboratory technology among college students and those considering career change results in larger and better prepared applicant pools. However, after decades of contraction marked by closing of programs, prospective students encounter an educational system without the capacity or vigor to meet their needs. Here discussed are some principles and proposals to allow universities, partnering with health-care providers, government agencies, and other stake-holders to develop new programs, or reenergize existing ones to serve our students and patients. Principles include academic rigor in biomedical and clinical science, multiple points of entry for students, flexibility in format, cost effectiveness, career ladders and robust partnerships.https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jmbe.v13i2.416 |
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| title | Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care Environment |
| title_full | Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care Environment |
| title_fullStr | Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care Environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care Environment |
| title_short | Educating Medical Laboratory Technologists: Revisiting Our Assumptions in the Current Economic and Health-Care Environment |
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