Major
Careers
Related Skills
- Performing analyses which require a complex network of steps and variables
- Recognizing and identifying problems and synthesizing solutions
- Troubleshooting and monitoring sophisticated instruments
- Confirming/verifying results of laboratory tests
- Establishing and monitoring of quality control programs
- Teaching or performing administrative duties
- Performing tests of fluid, blood, and tissue samples
- Managing a lab which employs a team of specialists and managing administrative aspects
- Heading up research projects to develop new laboratory techniques
- Operating, maintaining and troubleshooting of clinical instruments
- Operating computer systems for data input, retrieval and analysis of information
- Maintaining and improving laboratory practices, quality control, and safety
- Managing inventory for the laboratory
- Teaching students and health care personnel proper laboratory practices
Contact
Career Advising
Megan Kayfish
(309) 438-0735
185 Student Services Building
Internship Coordinator
Meridee Van Draska
(309) 438-8269
FSA 334
Being Successful in the Field
- Be able to generate, interpret, and report results vital in making a timely and accurate diagnosis
- Attention to detail is valued
- Problem-solving skills are highly valued as well
- Obtain credentials from either the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) or American Medical Technologists (AMT)
Related Fields
- Chemistry
- Medical bacteriology
- Medical laboratory science program director
- Coagulation
- Cytogenetics
- Drug analysis (toxicology)
- Endocrinology
- Health Promotion Coordinator
- Hematology
- Immunology
- Infection control officer/hospital epidemiologist
- Microbiology
- Medical mycology
- Parasitology
- Tissue typing
- Toxicology
- Virology
- Immunohematologist