Medical Laboratory Science Undergraduate Management Curriculum Development Using Practitioner-reported Job Tasks

Susanne Bishop; Karen Honeycutt

doi:10.29074/ascls.2020002238

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Managerial task performance (education and training, finance, and human resources).
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Managerial task performance (quality, regulatory, and other duties and equipment acquisition/validation).

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Table 1.

Demographics

Gender	Male					21%
	Female					76%
Community	Rural (<50 000 people)					36%
	Urban (>50 000 people)					64%
Years of experience	0 to <1	1–2	3–5		6–10		11–15	16–30	>30
	6%	21%	12%		8%		6%	6%	32%
Highest level of education	Associate’s degree			Bachelor’s degree				Master’s degree
	2%			86%*				12%
Professional certifications held	MLT (ASCP) or CLT (NCA)								11%
	MT/MLS (ASCP) + MLT (ASCP) or CLT (NCA)								5%
	MT/MLS (ASCP), MT (AMT) or CLS (NCA)								71%
	2 or more – MT/MLS (ASCP), MT (AMT), and CLS (NCA)								3%
	2 or more – MT/MLS (ASCP), MT (AMT), and CLS (NCA)and ASCP specialist (SBB, SC, SH, or SM)								14%
	CQIA (ASQ)								2%
Laboratory setting employed in the longest	Physician’s office								2%
	Hospital								86%
	Hospital and reference								7%
	Reference								3%
	Other**								2%

Abbreviations: AMT, American Medical Technologists; ASQ, American Society for Quality; CLT, Certified Logistics Technician; CQIA, Certified Quality Improvement Associate; MLT, medical laboratory technician; NCA, National Certification Authority; SBB, Specialist in Blood Bank Technology; SC, Specialist in Chemistry; SH, Specialist in Hematology; SM, Specialist in Microbiology.

*70% of these individuals earned their bachelor’s degree in CLS.

** Respondents specified work setting as biotechnology.

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Table 2.

Curriculum inclusion guidelines

Content Areas With Tasks Performed Often/ Sometimes by the Following	Curriculum Inclusion Guidelines
>75% respondents	Application-level exercises
50%–75% respondents	Knowledge or application-level exercises
10%–50% respondents	Knowledge-level exercises
<10% respondents	Not included in BS-level curriculum unless mandated by accreditation