TACLS WELCOMES FUTURE MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIANS, MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENTISTS AND THOSE JUST BROWSING.
How do you become involved within your profession as a student?
- Attend the Annual Convention and network with other students across the state
- Write letters to your community: senators, newspapers, radio stations about who you are and what you do.
- Gather other student in your program and volunteer at career days for elementary, middle, and high schools in your community. Share with other students who you are and what you do. Let them know about your career field and the possibilities. They are the future and there is no better time to start recruiting.
- Communicate with other students from other programs for ideas and information about what they are doing to spread the word.
- Make use of Facebook and attend TACLS board meetings and conference calls. Information about meetings and conference calls are updated on the Events page.
- Send in e-mails to the developing professional forum (dpforum@tacls.org) or post on Facebook ways you have contributed, ask questions about how to get involved, and give ideas about how to get the word out about our profession.
Who are clinical laboratory professionals and what do they do?
Clinical Laboratory Scientists receive the patient specimens, analyze the specimens, interpret and report results. They are responsible for confirming the accuracy of test results and reporting laboratory findings to pathologists and other physicians. The information that a Clinical Laboratory Scientists gives to the doctor influences the medical treatment a patient will receive. A Pathologist may confirm a diagnostic result, but often the Medical Technologist is responsible for interpreting and communicating critical patient results to the physician. Laboratory results aid clinical practitioners in confirming or ruling out diagnoses, monitoring chronic disease changes, and analyzing the effects of medical therapies.
Clinical Laboratory Scientists must recognize anomalies in their test results and know how to correct problems with the instrumentation. They monitor, screen, and troubleshoot analyzers featuring the latest technology available on the market. The CLS performs equipment validations, calibrations, quality controls, “STAT” or run-by-run assessment, statistical control of observed data, and recording normal operations. To maintain the integrity of the laboratory process, the medical laboratory scientist recognizes factors that could introduce error and rejects contaminated or sub-standard specimens.
Main areas of a lab:
Interested in becoming a Clinical Laboratory Professional?
For additional information on any of these topics please use our Resources page for links to associated sites.
Clinical Laboratory Scientists must recognize anomalies in their test results and know how to correct problems with the instrumentation. They monitor, screen, and troubleshoot analyzers featuring the latest technology available on the market. The CLS performs equipment validations, calibrations, quality controls, “STAT” or run-by-run assessment, statistical control of observed data, and recording normal operations. To maintain the integrity of the laboratory process, the medical laboratory scientist recognizes factors that could introduce error and rejects contaminated or sub-standard specimens.
Main areas of a lab:
- Hematology
- Chemistry
- Blood Bank
- Coagulation
- Urinalysis
- Microbiology
Interested in becoming a Clinical Laboratory Professional?
- Check-out our Programs page for a list of CLS(MT)/CLT(MLT) programs in Texas. Each program will have requirements, information about the program, and important deadline dates.
For additional information on any of these topics please use our Resources page for links to associated sites.
