From scientific laboratory technician to medical laboratory assistant
14 of the 29 essential skills of a medical laboratory assistant are already essential for a scientific laboratory technician — about 48% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from scientific laboratory technician in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 15
- would be new
- 48%
- of the target job covered
- 29
- essential skills of a medical laboratory assistant
What a medical laboratory assistant does
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.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- mix chemicals
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform laboratory tests
- perform sample testing
- prepare samples for testing
- record test data
- test chemical samples
- use chemical analysis equipment
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
What would be new
15 skillsEssential for a medical laboratory assistant and not for a scientific laboratory technician. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- archive healthcare users' records
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- blood type classification
- check the received biological samples
- communicate in healthcare
- conduct routine blood testing
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- identify patients' medical records
- label blood samples
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- microbiology-bacteriology
- perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis
- send samples to laboratory
- techniques of blood-sampling
- transport blood samples
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