What is Medical Technology?

Medical Technology is both a challenging and rewarding career. Medical Technologists play a key role in the modern laboratory. By performing scores of laboratory procedures in areas such as clinical chemistry, microbiology, hematology, serology and urinalysis, they help a physician to identify a patient's disease and evaluate effective treatment.

The profession requires a desire to serve mankind coupled with a willingness to work quietly behind the scenes. Examination and tests must be precise. Work in a medical laboratory is accomplished through the use of a wide array of intricate precision equipment:

• microscopes,
• automatic analyzers,
• electronic counters,
• spectrophotometers and
• other sophisticated laboratory equipment.

Sometimes results are factual, definite and complete, but often results pose other questions, or serve as hyphens between the questions and answers of medical research.

What Courses will I Take?

Med Tech Curriculum

Medical Technology majors typically spend three years on campus taking courses in biology and chemistry as well as completing all general education requirements. In their senior year, students put these three years of science background into practice by mastering numerous clinical laboratory procedures during a professional internship at an affiliated hospital.

Students are selected for internships during the fall of their junior year. Grades, letters of recommendation and a personal interview are all considered in the selection process. Grades are, perhaps, the primary consideration. In order to be successful in the internship application process, students are encouraged to strive for a GPA of 3.2 or better.