RESOURCES

Want to dive deeper and learn more about careers in laboratory science?  Below you'll find a variety of resources that will help to guide you through the many career opportunities available as well as show you what to expect as a student and professional in the laboratory sciences.

Videos

Career Information & Other Resources

AACC 

• ​​No Wrong Turns: How Clinical Laboratory Scientists Shape Careers to Match Their Passions  ​

American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)

• ​ASCLS Careers
• ASCLS Medical Lab Technologist
• ASCLS Medical Lab Technician
• ASCLS Medical Lab Assistant
• ASCLS Phlebotomist

​American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)

• ASCP What’s My Next
• ASCP Careers​​

American Society for Cytotechnology (ASC)

• ASC Student Resources

Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP)

• www.amp.org/education/career-development

Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)

• Public Health Laboratory Careers
• APHL That’s Sick: Headlines from the Public Health Laboratory Bench
• APHL What is a Public Health Laboratory?
• APHL Career Recruitment Brochure​​

Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA)

• CLMA Career Center

COLA

• GB365
• Near Patient Testing Matters Portal 
• Lab Testing Matters

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O*Net
Occupational Information Network (O*NET) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Labor/Employment and Training Administration through a grant to the North Carolina Dept. of Commerce.

• Clinical Laboratory Technologists
• Clinical Laboratory Technicians
• Histotechnician/Histotechnologist
• Cytotechnologists

​American Society for Cytopathology

• IHC and Cellblocks 
• Lymph node cytopathology

• Serous effusions (new international reporting system)

• CSF and Cytopathology
• HR HPV Epidemiology, Clinical, QA
• EBUS-Guided FNA of Lung and Lymph Nodes​

​Area Health Education Centers (AHEC)

• ​www.nationalahec.org/

Other Organizations

• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
• ​American Society of Cytopathology (ASC)
• American Society of Hematology (ASH)
• Association of Genetic Technologists (AGT)
• National Society for Histotechnology (NSH)
• American Association of Blood Banks (AABB)
• American Medical Technologists (AMT)
• Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP)​

Coordinating Council on the Clinical Laboratory Workforce Sponsoring Organizations 

• American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
• American Medical Technologists (AMT)
• American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS)
• American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
• ASCP Board of Certification (BOC)
• American Society for Cytopathology (ASC)
• American Society for Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (ASHI)

• American Society for Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (ASHI)​
• ​Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)
• Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA)
• COLA
• National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS)
• National Society for Histotechnology (NSH)

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