They may work in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, medical laboratories, and nursing and rehabilitation centers. They work in various occupations associated not only with curing illness and repairing injuries, but also with promoting health and preventing disease. Each year, many students from UCO, apply to and are accepted into these Allied Health programs. Nursing career information can be obtained from the UCO Department of Nursing. Medical technologists develop data on the blood, tissues, and fluids in the human body by using a variety of precision instruments.
Medical technologists assume responsibility for, and are held accountable for, accurate results.
Most medical technologists are employed in hospital laboratories. The remainder are employed in physicians' clinics, by the armed forces, by city, state, and federal health agencies, in industrial medical laboratories, in pharmaceutical houses, in numerous public and private research programs, and as faculty of accredited programs preparing medical laboratory personnel. Three years of study in the basic sciences and general education are required at the University of Central Oklahoma. For the last year of study, a student must be accepted by one of six hospitals in Oklahoma which has such a program. Successful completion of the clinical year results in a B.S. Degree in Medical Technology.