June
12
2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Past Event
Event Description
Maintaining adequate staffing levels of qualified employees is a challenge for many clinical and public health laboratories. Professional laboratory training programs are not adequately meeting the demand to fill the numerous vacant laboratory positions across the nation, and the need for certified laboratory professionals is growing. Participants of this webinar will hear our speaker’s experience developing a medical laboratory assistant program and how the program responded to staffing challenges.
Event Objectives
After completing this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify educational and other resources available through the OneLab Network
- Recognize the education requirements for Non-Certified Technical (NCT) staff members
- Describe the training requirements for an NCT to become a certified technical staff member
- Identify the basic approach toward developing an NCT and a Medical Lab Assistant (MLA)
- Program to support the lab NCT/MLA staffing needs
- Describe various approaches to increase awareness of the clinical laboratory profession for
students and graduates
Event Media
Duration
1 Hour
Event Speakers
Mike Barron MS, MBA, C(ASCP)
Executive Director of Laboratory Operations
Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories