
Nearly 300,000 practitioners of clinical laboratory science are working in the United States today. Since the development of this career profession in the 1920s, clinical laboratory science professionals have played a vital role in the diagnosis and prevention of disease.
Medical laboratory technicians perform general tests in all laboratory areas - Blood banking, Chemistry, Hematology, Immunology and Microbiology. Working with the supervision of a medical technologist, a medical laboratory technician hunts for clues to the absence, presence, extent, and causes of diseases.