MLSP - Lecture 3 - Practitioners
MLSP - Lecture 3 - Practitioners
MLSP - Lecture 3 - Practitioners
1. PATHOLOGIST technology
Duly registered physician who is especially trained in the A person can also become a medlab technician without
methods of: taking any examination once he/she, upon application and
payment of the required fee, shows satisfactory evidence
Laboratory medicine of the board that:
Gross and microscopic study and interpretation of
a. He/she passed the civil service examination for
tissues, secretions, and excretions of the human
med technicians given on March 21, 1969
body and its functions in order to diagnose disease,
b. He/she has finished a two-year college course
follow its course, determine the effectivity of
and has at least one year of experience working
treatment, ascertain the cause of death, and
as medtech technician
advance medicine by means of research.
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c. He/she has failed to pass the board exam for Histologic technicians routinely prepare, process, and
medical technology but obtained a general rating stain biopsies and tissue specimens for microscopic
of at least 70% examinations by pathologist
d. Registered technician when employed in Histo technologists performs all the aspect of the job
the government shall have equivalent that HTs do and other more complex processing etc
civil service eligibility not lower than the In abroad, a 12-month training program has to be
second grade completed and passed before a student can
become a histologic technician
4. PHLEBOTOMIST
7. SPECIALIST
Someone trained to collect blood samples either
through a skin puncture, venipuncture, or arterial Clinical laboratory scientist (CLS)/ Medical
puncture. technologist (MT) who has worked for a number of
Refers to a specially trained person who is years in a specific discipline and has extensive
responsible for drawing blood samples from patients knowledge and experience in that area
High school graduate who may have been trained on
8. CYTOGENETIC TECHNOLOGIST
the job or who may have gone through a phlebotomy
training program, Provides the diagnosis of inherited acquired
May have given expanded responsibilities, including chromosomal disorders
specimen processing or, in some cases, simple Culture cells from tissue and body fluid samples to
laboratory testing such as the macroscopic analysis obtain chromosomes to be used in an analysis
or urine specimen. Must master the art of cell culture, chromosome
5. CYTOTECHNOLOGIST (cell processor) banding and analysis (karyotyping), and
Who examines human specimens to detect cancer photography and darkroom skills
cells or diseases. Computer imaging has become a major part of this
Works closely with the pathologist to arrive at a final field
diagnosis 9. NUCLEAR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST
Have baccalaureate degree with a strong science Apply knowledge on radiation physics and safety
background regulations to limit radiation exposure, prepare
Know how to perform special chemical stains and and administer radiopharmaceuticals, and use of
techniques as well as determine differences among radiation detection devices and other kinds of
inflammatory, viral, and malignant changes in cells. laboratory equipment that measure the quantity
Cytologic examination may also be performed by and distribution of radionuclides deposited in the
medtechs assigned in the histopathology section of patient or in the patient’s specimen
the laboratory
10. TOXICOLOGIST
Skilled in the processing of human specimens for the
study of normal and pathologic cellular changes and Studies the effects of toxic substances on the
the association of such findings to clinical conditions physiological functions of a man, animals, and
of the patients plants
6. HISTOTECHNOLOGIST (tissue processor) Designs and conducts studies to determine
phyisiologic effects of various substances in
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samples using biological and biochemical
techniques.
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