Course includes practical experience in affiliated hospital laboratories. Laboratory sessions emphasize laboratory testing to assess immune function or to diagnose disease. The diagnosis and management of most human diseases depends on timely and accurate performance of laboratory tests. As an indespensible part of the medical laboratory team, medical technologists and technicians provide essential information that allows a physician to make accurate judgements about a patient's state of health. Technicians may work with sophisticated laboratory equipment to grow and identify microbes, assess the immune response of patients or match blood for transfusion therapy.
Practitioners combine their love of sciences with the rewards of a truly interesting career.
If you are fascinated by the complex way the body works, and you like to work with your hands, if you have an inquisitive mind and have always been fascinated by medical research and the solutions it pursues, then Medical Laboratory Technology may well be the career for you. Graduates Find Jobs Graduates of the BCC Medical Laboratory Technology program choose either to seek immediate employment or to transfer to one of several upper-division programs. Employment prospects are excellent and varied. Graduates are employed in area and regional hospitals, in physicians' office laboratories, in commercial laboratories, and in pharmaceutical companies as participants in research, product development, or sales. Salaries are currently competitive and are expected to continue to rise further over the next several years.