medical laboratory assistant
Medical laboratory assistants work under supervision of the biomedical scientist and carry out basic laboratory procedures. They work in the pre-analytical handling of samples such as checking the details of specimens received for analysis, maintaining analysers, loading reagents, and packaging specimens. They also perform clerical tasks such as monitoring the stock levels of reagents used in analysis.
Also called: biomedical laboratory assistant, assistant clinical researcher, assistant in medical laboratory, medical lab assistant, medical laboratory research assistant, clinical research assistant, assistant in biomedical laboratory, biomedical laboratory research assistant
- 29
- essential skills
- 43
- optional skills
- 8
- related roles
- 3212
- ISCO-08 group
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8 rolesOccupations sharing the most essential skills with this one. The number is a count, not an opinion.
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- chromatographer8 skills in common
- toxicologist8 skills in common
- biomedical scientist7 skills in common
- chemical manufacturing quality technician7 skills in common
- chemistry technician7 skills in common
- bacteriology technician6 skills in common
Essential skills
29- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- archive healthcare users' records
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- blood type classification
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- check the received biological samples
- communicate in healthcare
- conduct routine blood testing
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- identify patients' medical records
- label blood samples
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- microbiology-bacteriology
- mix chemicals
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis
- perform laboratory tests
- perform sample testing
- prepare samples for testing
- record test data
- send samples to laboratory
- techniques of blood-sampling
- test chemical samples
- transport blood samples
- use chemical analysis equipment
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
Optional skills
43- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biological chemistry
- blood collection on babies
- blood donation
- blood transfusion
- carry out flow cytometry
- carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
- clinical biochemistry
- clinical cytology
- collect biological samples from patients
- conduct cancer screening tests
- cryopreservation
- data protection
- densiometry
- dermapathology
- dispose medical waste
- electroencephalography
- examine samples in dermatology
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- fine-needle aspiration
- histopathology
- immunology
- interpret hematological test results
- interpret medical results
- interpret urology diagnostic tests
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- microscopic techniques
- monitor stock level
- order supplies
- paediatric phlebotomy procedures
- perform bone marrow transplant
- perform fertility laboratory procedures
- perform PCR covid test
- perform reconstructive microsurgery
- perform stem cell transplantation
- stem cells
- sterilise medical equipment
- tissue cytogenetics
- urolithiasis in the urinary tract
- virology
- work with chemicals
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