provides education and training opportunities in high-demand disciplines – to include medical ( clinical ) laboratory science . The organization also supports efforts to improve visibility of the profession by engaging in community outreach opportunities and by partnering with middle and high school STEM programs to show young people that laboratory medicine is a viable career path .
Lastly , with competition for laboratory personnel intensifying over the last year , turnover rates for some categories of laboratory personnel now exceed 20 percent . Because of the difficulty in finding qualified staff , medical laboratories are increasingly turning to temporary staff to handle the patient testing workload . In a sense , the pandemic has exacerbated a “ free-agent ” effect for traveling medical laboratory professionals that hurts continuity and quality in healthcare .
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The American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science is calling for expansion of the Title VII health professions program – which provides education and training opportunities in highdemand disciplines – to include medical ( clinical ) laboratory science .
Rodney E . Rohde , PhD , MS , SM ( ASCP ) CM SVCM , MBCM , FACSc , serves as university distinguished chair and professor of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at Texas State in the College of Health Professions , as well as associate director for the Translational Health Research Center . Follow him on Twitter @ RodneyRohde / @ TXST _ CLS , Linkedin , Facebook and on his website : http :// rodneyerohde . wp . txstate . edu /
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