Principle of Medical Laboratory Science

[LECTURE 3]: DEFINING THE PRACTICE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY

 Normally considered the “head”
 Counterchecks the work done by medtechs
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY PRACTICE
 Signature should always be affixed in results
REPUBLIC ACT NO. 5527 (PHILIPPINE MEDTECH ACT OF
1969)

1. Examination of tissues, sections, and 2. MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST

excretions of the human body and other

 Person who engages in the work of medical
body fluids through electronic, chemical,
technology under the supervision of a pathologist or a
microscopic, bacteriologic, hematologic,
licensed physician authorized by the department of
serologic, immunologic, nuclear, or other
health in places where there’s no pathologist
laboratory procedures and techniques, either
 Having passed a prescribed course (BSMT or BS in
manually or not.
Hygiene) off training and examinations
2. Blood banking procedures and techniques or
 Registered under the provisions of the
other blood transfusion services
aforementioned act.
3. Parasitologic, mycologic, and microbiologic
 Front liners of laboratory diagnostics
procedures and techniques
 Process the specimens and release the result after
4. Histopathologic and cytotechnologic
the tests have been confirmed by the pathologist
techniques
 Their signatures should always be affixed in every
5. Clinical research involving human beings or
result from release by the laboratory
animals requiring the use of and/or
 Only registered or licensed medtech are allowed to
application of medical technology and
practice
procedures
 Practicing without any valid board certification is,
6. Preparations and standardization of
reagents, standards, stains, or others; therefore, ILLEGAL and PROHIBITED

provided that such reagents, are exclusively 3. MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNICIAN

for the use of their laboratory
7. Clinical laboratory quality control  Person certified by and registered with the

8. Collection and preservation of specimens Professional Regulatory Board of Medical Technology

 Qualified to assist a medical technologist and/or
CLINICAL LABORATORY PRACTITIONERS
qualified pathologist in the practice of medical

1. PATHOLOGIST technology

Duly registered physician who is especially trained in the A person can also become a medlab technician without

methods of: taking any examination once he/she, upon application and
payment of the required fee, shows satisfactory evidence
 Laboratory medicine of the board that:
 Gross and microscopic study and interpretation of
a. He/she passed the civil service examination for
tissues, secretions, and excretions of the human
med technicians given on March 21, 1969
body and its functions in order to diagnose disease,
b. He/she has finished a two-year college course
follow its course, determine the effectivity of
and has at least one year of experience working
treatment, ascertain the cause of death, and
as medtech technician
advance medicine by means of research.

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c. He/she has failed to pass the board exam for 
medical technology but obtained a general rating stain biopsies and tissue specimens for microscopic
of at least 70%
d. Registered technician when employed in
the government shall have equivalent
civil service eligibility not lower than the
second grade
4. PHLEBOTOMIST
 Someone trained to collect blood samples either
through a skin puncture, venipuncture, or arterial
puncture.
 Refers to a specially trained person who is
responsible for drawing blood samples from patients
 High school graduate who may have been trained on
the job or who may have gone through a phlebotomy
training program,
 May have given expanded responsibilities, including
specimen processing or, in some cases, simple
laboratory testing such as the macroscopic analysis
or urine specimen.
5. CYTOTECHNOLOGIST (cell processor)
 Who examines human specimens to detect cancer
cells or diseases.
 Works closely with the pathologist to arrive at a final
diagnosis
 Have baccalaureate degree with a strong science
background
 Know how to perform special chemical stains and
techniques as well as determine differences among
inflammatory, viral, and malignant changes in cells.
 Cytologic examination may also be performed by
medtechs assigned in the histopathology section of
the laboratory
 Skilled in the processing of human specimens for the
study of normal and pathologic cellular changes and
the association of such findings to clinical conditions
of the patients
6. HISTOTECHNOLOGIST (tissue processor)
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Histologic technicians routinely prepare, process, and
examinations by pathologist
 Histo technologists performs all the aspect of the job
that HTs do and other more complex processing etc
 In abroad, a 12-month training program has to be
completed and passed before a student can
become a histologic technician
7. SPECIALIST
 Clinical laboratory scientist (CLS)/ Medical
technologist (MT) who has worked for a number of
years in a specific discipline and has extensive
knowledge and experience in that area
8. CYTOGENETIC TECHNOLOGIST
 Provides the diagnosis of inherited acquired
chromosomal disorders
 Culture cells from tissue and body fluid samples to
obtain chromosomes to be used in an analysis
 Must master the art of cell culture, chromosome
banding and analysis (karyotyping), and
photography and darkroom skills
 Computer imaging has become a major part of this
field
9. NUCLEAR MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST
 Apply knowledge on radiation physics and safety
regulations to limit radiation exposure, prepare
and administer radiopharmaceuticals, and use of
radiation detection devices and other kinds of
laboratory equipment that measure the quantity
and distribution of radionuclides deposited in the
patient or in the patient’s specimen
10. TOXICOLOGIST
 Studies the effects of toxic substances on the
physiological functions of a man, animals, and
plants
 Designs and conducts studies to determine
phyisiologic effects of various substances in
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samples using biological and biochemical
techniques.

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