title: Career choices and professional attitudes of graduating clinical laboratory science students: a nationwide survey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To conduct a nationwide survey of graduating clinical laboratory science students in order to gather descriptive data and to determine how graduates felt about their profession and what their career goals were for the next 5 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Survey
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 866 clinical laboratory science seniors from hospital-based and university-based clinical laboratory science programs in the United States.
  
  
  METHODS
  Results of questions designed to gather descriptive data and professional goals as well as scales measuring professional attitudes about various aspects of the clinical laboratory science profession.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Respondents indicated a high level of satisfaction with their chosen profession as indicated by the positive ratings of their clinical laboratory science program and immediate and long-term employment goals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Graduating clinical laboratory science students displayed satisfaction with their profession as evidenced by their career choices immediately following graduation, their professional goals 5 years after graduation, and their responses assessing professional attitudes.
authors.affiliation: School of Health Technology and Management, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
authors.forename: D T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Firestone
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Finnegan
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D002321:Career Choice; D004651:Employment; D006801:Humans; D007588:Job Satisfaction; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology*; D013336:Students, Health Occupations / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States