Clinical Laboratory Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Clinical Laboratory Specialist contain two lines of work laboratory technicians (medical laboratory technicians) and clinical technologists (medical technologists). Both of these lines of work, work in a laboratory to diagnose, identify and treat diseases. Laboratory technicians use microscopes, computers, and laboratory equipment to perform laboratory procedures. They also collect data for physicians, collect blood specimens and prepare cultural media. Clinical technologists have a more complex job, they supervise laboratory technicians, conduct difficult laboratory test, and manage laboratory quality control. They work in hospitals, for private companies, medical groups, universities, research laboratories, and pharmaceutical companies.

Salary: $20,000-$28,000 ( clinical laboratory technicians)

$25,000-$40,000(clinical technologist)   

Education: In high school students should take the most challenging math, English, and science courses. To become a technician all that is required is an associate’s degree and training. In order to become technologists you need to have a bachelor’s degree, although some jobs take experience over degrees         

I would not like to become a clinical laboratory specialist because it doesn't seem to interesting, I would like to become more in contact with the patients involved in the world not stuck in a laboratory. Maybe if more testing were involved  I would consider the job.