Medical Lab Technology as Booming Career Option
Medical Laboratory Technology is one of the many professional specialities that are offered in the healthcare industry. It deals with the microscopic, biochemical, and pathological investigation of bodily cells, tissues, and fluids. It equips students with knowledge and abilities that will help doctors create a treatment plan.
Why do medical lab technologies exist?
Only when an illness has been identified by a doctor can it be treated. That is why a variety of tests and analyses are required. They treat patients and offer recommendations for prevention based on the results of these tests. Herein lies the critical contribution of Medical Laboratory Technology or Clinical Laboratory Science. Blood is drawn, and then medical laboratory technicians analyse tissues, body fluids like blood, saliva, and urine, as well as microorganisms, chemicals, and other factors, to perform a variety of diagnostic tests.
The Medical Laboratory Technicians are crucial in gathering the data required for these investigations as well as in sampling, testing, reporting, and recordkeeping. They establish the existence, severity, or absence of disease and offer the information required to assess the efficacy of treatment.
Career Possibilities
The field of medical lab technology is flourishing, notably after Covid-19. A “Medical Lab Technologist” is one such expert who performs pathological laboratory work. A pathologist who has undergone training can work in a variety of distinct fields. He can serve as a consultant for both patients and doctors.
In the healthcare industry, including rural and urban environments, along with community-based health care and rural healthcare services, Medical Lab Technology graduates & Postgraduates have a variety of career options. Hospitals, medical centres, research facilities, blood banks, and R&D departments of hospitals, both public and private, are all included in the scope of services. Furthermore, the average yearly pay for a medical lab technologist in India is 2.5 Lakhs, with salaries ranging from 0.2 Lakhs to 7.0 Lakhs.
Well, the Dolphin (PG) Institute, Dehradun offers both M.Sc. Medical Lab Technology and B.Sc. Medical Lab Technology. A minimum of 50% in the overall grade for a B.Sc. in Medical Laboratory Technology, Medical Microbiology, or Medical Sciences is needed. Clinical pathology, haematology, blood banking, medical microbiology, diagnostic serology, clinical biochemistry, histology, cytology, clinical virology, clinical parasitology, clinical mycology, immunology, hospital management and organisation, biostatistics, and computer applications are some of the topics covered in the course.
Also, the 200-bed Dolphin Jan Kalyan Multi Specialty Hospital (DJKMSH), Dehradun, and the 200-bed Synergy Institute of Medical Sciences, Dehradun, have signed memorandums of understanding with the Dolphin (PG) Institute of Biomedical & Natural Sciences (DIBNS), Dehradun. The training, mentoring, and internship opportunities for the Dolphin (PG)Institute’s physiotherapy, medical lab technology, and microbiology students will be made possible through both memoranda of understanding.
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