Qualification - medical laboratory technician
The level of education- basic training
Form of study - full-time (daytime)
Training period- based on the average full general education(11 classes) - 2 years 10 months, on the basis of basic general education (9 grades) - 3 years 10 months
Region professional activity alumni
- clinical, microbiological, immunological and sanitary-hygienic laboratory research in healthcare institutions and research institutes
Objects of professional activity of the graduate
- biological materials;
- objects of the external environment;
- Food.
Main types of professional activity
- Conducting laboratory general clinical studies.
- Conducting laboratory hematological studies.
- Conducting laboratory biochemical studies.
- Conducting laboratory microbiological and immunological studies.
- Conducting laboratory histological studies.
- Conducting laboratory sanitary and hygienic research.
MEDICAL
LABORATORY TECHNICIAN
Clinical and laboratory diagnostics is an elite profession in medicine, related to any industry in healthcare. It is laboratory tests that make it possible to identify a pathological process and assess the degree of risk of developing a particular disease.
The constant expansion of the scientific and technological base of laboratory research creates fundamentally new approaches to the diagnosis and monitoring of many diseases.
Graduates of the specialty "Laboratory Diagnostics" work in clinical diagnostic and bacteriological laboratories of public and private medical institutions, departments of forensic medical examination, pathology and anatomical bureaus, laboratories of research institutes, private diagnostic centers.
The accuracy of the diagnosis, and hence the success of the treatment of sick people, largely depends on the activitymedical laboratory technician.
Medical laboratory technician
Type and class of profession
The profession of a medical laboratory technician belongs to the type "Man - Nature", it is associated with the study, research of biological materials. This work requires attentiveness, stability, inclination and interest in working with living and inanimate objects of nature.
Also, this profession belongs to the type of "Man - Technique", as it is associated with working with technical equipment and devices, the need to understand technical means, to show diligence, a penchant for manual and technical work.
The profession of a medical laboratory technician belongs to the class of "executive", it is associated with the execution of decisions, work according to a given model, compliance with existing rules and regulations, following instructions, requires organization, diligence.
A medical technician works in health care facilities of the state and non-state health care systems.
The work of a medical technician includes:
Performing laboratory tests in accordance with the established qualification requirements;
Preparation for the work of reagents, chemical glassware, equipment, disinfectant solutions;
Registration of biological material entering the laboratory for research, processing of the material and preparing it for research; collection of analyses;
Sterilization of laboratory equipment; maintaining the necessary documentation (registration, entries in journals, forms of analysis results, etc.);
Compliance with safety regulations and industrial sanitation, in accordance with the requirements of the sanitary and epidemiological regime, etc.
Requirements to individual characteristics specialist
To be successful as a medical laboratory technician, you must have the following professionally important qualities: high level concentration of attention, accuracy, propensity to work with objects of nature, propensity to service work, propensity to manual labor, propensity to work with information, emotional stability.
Working conditions
A medical technician can work both independently and in a team, which may consist of several specialists. Most often, representatives of this profession work indoors. It can be laboratories, offices of medical institutions. The work takes place mainly sitting, using a computer and special tools.
There are about 30 colleges in Moscow and the region that train paramedical personnel - from nurses and midwives to dental technicians and paramedics. Among the advantages of secondary medical education: guaranteed employment, the possibility of parallel obtaining related professions, active sports - all colleges promote healthy lifestyle life. Top Colleges for physicians - in the review "Ucheby.ru".
1. Medical College No. 1
Specialty:"Nursing"; "Medicine"; "Laboratory diagnostics"
Reception: based on 9, 11 classes
Education: free and paid (full-time: from 133 thousand rubles / year, part-time: 100 thousand rubles / year)
This is the leading medical college in Moscow, a methodological center for all secondary specialized educational institutions in the field of medicine. As a result of the reorganization, it included medical schools No. 4, No. 5, No. 19 and the Medical College. Botkin. The united complex annually recruits more than 300 first-year students for state-funded places. MK No. 1 was the first to start multi-level training of nurses and laboratory diagnostics specialists. Laboratory technicians who complete the basic training program can complete the advanced program and become a medical technologist. College graduates, in addition to their main specialty, have the opportunity to receive an additional profession of an exercise therapy instructor, cosmetologist, nutritionist, and medical statistician. The college also runs medical massage courses.
The entrance competition is comparable to medical universities. The most difficult thing is to enter the specialty "Nursing" after the 9th grade: in 2016, four applicants applied for one budgetary place. For enrollment, it was necessary to demonstrate a GPA of at least 4.5 and pass a psychological test.
The college actively participates in international projects. Students go on internships in hospitals and university clinics in the USA, China, Germany and the UK to exchange experience in the field of nursing care for patients.
2. Medical College No. 2
Specialty:"Nursing"; "Medicine"
Reception: based on 9, 11 classes
Education: free and paid (from 130 thousand rubles / year)
The college is very popular with applicants. Here, one of the highest entrance competitions among medical colleges - in 2016, in the specialty "Nursing", the average score of the certificate was 4.3. This year there are 225 open budget places for future nurses; for future paramedics, training is only paid. The college cooperates with the First Moscow Medical University. THEM. Sechenov, where students study at the departments of anatomy, physiology, microbiology, hygiene and pathology.
In the advanced training department of the college, you can get additional training in physiotherapy, massage, and also get the specialty of an operating nurse (this is the highest aerobatics in the profession). Students take these programs in parallel with their undergraduate studies.
3. Medical College of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation
Specialty:"Nursing"; "General Medicine", "Laboratory Diagnostics"
Reception: based on 9, 11 classes
Education: free
The college trains nurses, laboratory technicians and paramedics for medical institutions of the healthcare system of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation. Graduates are guaranteed 100% employment in this system and social bonuses enjoyed by its employees: free treatment, provision of kindergartens, vacations in the Moscow region and on the Black Sea coast. In parallel with studying in the main specialty, students can take courses and additionally receive the profession of a children's and adult massage therapist, a specialist in exercise therapy, and a cosmetologist.
Graduates of the 9th grade are admitted to the specialty "Nursing", and graduates of the 11th grade are admitted to the specialties "General Medicine" and "Laboratory Diagnostics". The competition is held on the basis of psychological testing and the average score of the certificate. The college is located on the territory of the Moskvoretsky park, which allows you to play sports in the fresh air.
4. Medical College No. 5
Specialty:"Nursing"; "Orthopedic Dentistry", "General Medicine", "Obstetrics"
Reception: based on 9, 11 classes
Education: free and paid (from 100 thousand rubles / year)
This is an educational complex, which includes six structural divisions. Under the new name, schools No. 3, No. 9, No. 13, college No. 4, as well as the oldest medical school No. 1 in Moscow, which has existed for more than 200 years, have united. Since the college has several educational buildings, almost all specialties of secondary medical education are represented in it. Graduates of the 9th grade can get the profession of a nurse here, and graduates of the 11th grade can get the professions of a dental technician, midwife and paramedic.
In addition to a diploma in the specialty of nurses, upon graduation from the college, they receive certificates in anesthesiology, resuscitation and radiology, and paramedics receive a certificate in emergency and emergency medicine. The college has a distribution system at the request of the Moscow Department of Health. Graduates are placed in children's and adult city hospitals and clinics. About a quarter of graduates continue their education in medical universities.
5. College of Pharmacy "New Knowledge"
Specialty:"Pharmacy"
Reception: based on 11 classes
Education: free and paid (49 thousand rubles / year)
One of the three Moscow colleges graduating "pharmacy" specialists - pharmacists. In 2017, 300 paid places are open for applicants. Also, the college has educational project"New footage. Pharmacy”, within which 25 first-year students can study for free. To participate in this program, you must apply by May 15 and pass the test.
On the paid department The college accepts everyone, regardless of age, according to the results of the competition of certificates. To participate in the competition, you must have an education of at least 11 classes. A flexible schedule of classes that take place in the evening, allows you to combine study with work. For applicants who want to restore school knowledge in chemistry, on May 20, the college will begin training courses. Classes will be held once a week, on Saturdays, training is free.
The Employment Assistance Center works at the college together with the Pharmrabota recruitment agency and offers vacancies to graduates. Pharmacists can also continue their education in medical university and get the profession of a pharmacist on an accelerated program.
FGBPOU "Medical College" trains nurses in the specialty“ Laboratory diagnostics” on the basis of secondary (complete) general, secondary vocational and higher education.
Qualification: "Medical Laboratory Technician".
Duration of training: 2 years 10 months
In recent decades, the number of laboratory tests used has increased dramatically. This is due to a change in the course of many infectious and non-infectious human diseases and the introduction of high-tech techniques into medical practice. According to WHO experts, laboratory tests provide up to 85% of objective diagnostic information about a patient. The progress of laboratory medicine is in turn determined by the progress of fundamental sciences Keywords: physics, chemistry, genetics, molecular biology, information technology.
One of the main conditions for conducting high-quality and timely laboratory diagnostics is a high level of professional skills of all participants in laboratory production.
At the same time, the responsibility of direct analysis falls on the shoulders of medical laboratory technicians, which includes the following elements:
1) sample preparation: taking material from a patient or, much more often, receiving material delivered from a patient, conducting a pre-analytical stage of the study;
2) handling and disposal of containers in which the material was delivered;
4) removal of research results;
5) participation in the formulation of research results;
6) handing over the results of the study or sending it to the place of treatment of the patient;
7) entering the test results into the information database; using ready-made database results.
The department of laboratory diagnostics of the college appeared more than 28 years ago in accordance with the needs of the medical and diagnostic process of highly professional personnel with both general medical knowledge and special skills. Although not numerous, the department is unique, a kind of elite. Practical skills are being mastered by future specialists in laboratory diagnostics literally from the first months of training in specialized laboratory health care facilities (treatment and prophylactic institutions of the UD system of the President of the Russian Federation). Up to 80% of the study time, students of the II and III years of study spend directly at their future workplaces. The laboratories of three main profiles are at the service of comprehending the basics of the profession:
– clinical diagnostic;
– microbiological;
- biochemical.
The operation of the equipment of more highly specialized laboratories and highly professional employees take part in the formation of medical laboratory technicians.
Having the opportunity to use modern laboratory equipment and use the work of unique specialists, diagnostic laboratories conduct research at the level of world requirements. Especially students note the value of acquiring practical skills in laboratories:
– central laboratory of clinical microbiology;
– laboratories of express diagnostics;
– laboratories of clinical endocrinology;
- histological laboratory.
Located mainly on the territory of the Central Clinical Hospital of the President's Department of Education, the laboratories provide territorial accessibility, facilitate the provision of visual material for classes in the college auditorium.
Qualification - medical laboratory technician.
Today, medicine knows a great many diseases. Often, pathologies have similar symptoms, and without appropriate tests, it becomes impossible to make an accurate diagnosis. In addition, the development of an effective treatment regimen for the patient directly depends on the results of the research. "Laboratory diagnostics" is a specialty most in demand in the medical industry. Graduates can work in any laboratory in various fields.
Where to go?
For work in the specialty "laboratory diagnostics" higher education not required. Future student can apply to any medical college. The terms of study vary depending on the number of classes of secondary education (9 or 11) and the form of education (full-time, part-time, evening).
It is possible to master the profession of "doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics" only in medical universities. The difference between the specialties is that in the first case, the worker's activity is somewhat limited. In the second, it involves participation in the development scientific field and possession of a wider range of knowledge. In any case, after receiving an education in the specialty "laboratory diagnostics", you can apply to the university. As a rule, such students are enrolled immediately in the second year, because they have already listened to the lectures of the first in college.
Who to work?
Graduates who have mastered the specialty "laboratory diagnostics" can work in the profession "medical technician". This is a responsible position, involving the performance of important tasks.
The medical laboratory technician must know:
- the laws of the Russian Federation and the provisions of other regulatory documents governing the activities of any medical institutions;
- internal regulations, labor protection and fire safety;
- ways to provide emergency care, including being able to apply them in practice;
- basics of the laboratory assistant profession;
- principles of taking the patient's biological material;
- operating conditions of medical equipment;
- rules for working with biomaterial containing pathogens of infectious diseases;
- morphology of conditionally pathogenic microorganisms;
- methods for preparing the necessary reagents;
- rules for sterilization of instruments and disinfection of material.
The duties of a person who has received the specialty "laboratory diagnostics" include:
- implementation of the study of the biological material of the patient (blood, urine, feces, cerebrospinal fluid, etc.);
- use of established diagnostic methods;
- timely and high-quality fulfillment of tasks set by senior management;
- compliance with internal regulations, safety, sanitary standards.
The specialist has the right:
- voice ideas to senior management, the implementation of which will help optimize and improve the industry;
- demand assistance for the quality performance of their labor duties;
- receive timely information from the specialists of the medical institution, which helps to establish the workflow;
- undergo certification, upon completion of which he is assigned the appropriate category;
- symposiums, if they touch upon issues related to his professional activities;
- fully enjoy all the provisions of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.
The employee is also responsible for the quality and timely fulfillment of his labor obligations.
Where to work?
"Laboratory diagnostics" is a specialty that is in demand at all times. Medical graduates educational institutions in this profession can work in:
- polyclinics and hospitals of any level;
- laboratories at universities;
- blood transfusion stations;
Finally
Today, the medical industry is in high demand for professionals who have the specialty "laboratory diagnostics". The feedback from graduates of educational institutions is the most positive - the risk of being left without a job is reduced to almost zero. And this is justified - the medical laboratory technician plays very important role in the diagnosis of diseases, which further helps the attending physician to accurately diagnose and draw up the most effective treatment regimen for the patient.
The most common entrance exams are:
- Foreign language - at the choice of the university
For admission, you must pass an exam in the specialty.
Any specialist with medical education in his work he is guided not by intuition, making a diagnosis and prescribing treatment, but by specific facts confirming the presence of a certain disease or pathology. Sometimes the disease declares itself publicly, but to confirm the assumption, the responsible doctor will still prescribe tests or use other methods.
Specialty 31.08.05 "Clinical laboratory diagnostics" is the most important branch of medicine. If the doctor cannot say for sure which illness has overcome the patient, then you need to call for help from specialists who will conduct special studies. They use numerous techniques: this is working with classical microscopes, and searching for the root of the problem through biochemical studies, the study of a pathological agent.
Admission conditions
This course involves an in-depth study of the theory and workshops. Here, not only good savvy in natural and exact sciences, but also the ability to work painstakingly, persistently, with all responsibility, in order to exclude the possibility of a fatal error.
What subjects are usually taken by future students when entering Moscow universities for residency, depends on the conditions of a particular educational institution. Basically, this is an exam in the specialty and foreign language. Admission takes place on a competitive basis, and the exam can take place orally, in the form of a test or an interview.
Future profession
This is a very interesting specialty that suits people with abstract thinking. It is aimed at prevention, prevention of possible ailments, as well as specific assistance in the diagnosis and subsequent treatment. Such a doctor can choose different profiles of activity. For example, someone prefers to carry out preventive measures among the population. Others are set to save human lives in emergency situations: during epidemics, after natural disasters. Such a specialist will certainly bring up a high degree responsibility, which will be needed not only when working in the laboratory, but also on the condition that he is entrusted with honorary positions of an organizational and managerial nature.
Where to apply
Now former students have a large choice of where to study in residency in this area:
- Russian national research honey. Pirogov University (N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University);
- Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (PFUR);
- First state Medical and Dental University named after Evdokimov;
- Research Institute of Emergency Medicine. Sklifosovsky;
- Russian medical Academy postgraduate education.
Training period
Residency in this specialty involves training for 2 years.
Disciplines included in the course of study
During the study, the future specialist gets acquainted with a whole range of important subjects:
- clinical laboratory diagnostics;
- hygiene;
- epidemiology;
- laboratory equipment and research methods;
- public health;
- emergency medicine;
- pathology.
Acquired Skills
For a future professional, it is important to acquire valuable practical skills that will be needed in solving the following tasks:
Employment prospects by profession
Modern reality opens up wide opportunities for the young specialist in terms of self-realization. After all, today medicine is impossible without laboratory research.
Many ailments, in principle, cannot be identified without the involvement of such a professional. Therefore, a university graduate will find himself in any clinic - public or private. He will also be able to find vacancies in laboratories that operate at sanitary and epidemiological stations, forensic departments.
What are former students doing?
- doctor of clinical laboratory diagnostics;
- laboratory assistant;
- analyst;
- operator.
For a residency graduate, the minimum wage starts from 27 thousand in domestic currency. But a young specialist who has proven his worth gets much higher than this mark.
Prospects for professional development of graduates
Postgraduate study involves obtaining a degree.