PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Lennon, Alan
AU  - Hu, Peter
TI  - Clinical Molecular Testing: Subspecialty, Entry-Level or Specialist Certification?
AID  - 10.29074/ascls.24.4.208
DP  - 2011 Oct 01
TA  - American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
PG  - 208--211
VI  - 24
IP  - 4
4099  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/24/4/208.short
4100  - http://hwmaint.clsjournal.ascls.org/content/24/4/208.full
SO  - Clin Lab Sci2011 Oct 01; 24
AB  - Some clinical laboratories require workers who have basic knowledge in molecular techniques (such as fluorescent in situ hybridization and polymerase chain reaction). Exclusively molecular diagnostic laboratories need workers to be competent in a variety of cutting edge molecular technologies, such as DNA sequencing, array-based comparative genomic hybridization, quantitative polymerase chain reaction, and many other techniques. Having only one certification for molecular biology at the entry level, as newly prescribed by the Board of Certification, doesn't accurately define the two very differently trained types of people these differing types of laboratories require. Creating a second molecular certification, at the specialist level, would address this issue positively.ABBREVIATIONS: FISH-fluorescence in situ hybridization; PCR-polymerase chain reaction; aCGH-array-based comparative genomic hybridization; NCA-National Credentialling Agency; BOR-Board of Registry; BOC-Board of Certification