Welcome to
LabScience.org!
Your Site for Info on
Clinical Laboratory Careers in New Jersey
Would you like to know:
- How you can join an expanding field with multiple and flexible career opportunities?
- How you can be a medical detective to investigate and find causes of illness?
- How
you can have an exciting and rewarding career helping to save lives and
cure disease?
Consider a Career in
the Clinical Laboratory Sciences!
Clinical
Laboratory Science is an exciting, high tech, biomedical career that blends
science, medicine and technology.
Clinical Laboratory Professionals at the baccalaureate level consist of Medical Laboratory Scientists, Cytotechnologists and Histotechnologists. Clinical Laboratory Professionals at the associate
level consist
of Medical Laboratory Technicians and
Histotechnicians. Opportunities exist at the post
high school level as Phlebotomists and Laboratory
Assistants.
Clinical Laboratory professionals analyze blood, body fluids, tissues and cells to determine the presence or absence of disease states including cancer, diabetes and infectious agents and monitor drug therapy to ensure patient safety and the effectiveness of treatment.
They are highly skilled in the use of the latest in biomedical techniques and instrumentation.
This site
was developed by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science – New
Jersey Chapter with support from the New Jersey Hospital Association and the
New Jersey Clinical Laboratory Management Association. Photography courtesy of
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey – School of Health Related
Professions and the American Society for Clinical Pathology.