title: Educational program survival strategies: preserving and expanding capacity.
abstract: The clinical laboratory workforce picture is clear, and it is not pretty. Vacancy rates in 2000 were the highest reported over a 12-year comparison period (1). Eleven percent of staff medical technologist positions were vacant, and 14% of staff medical laboratory technician positions were vacant. Of course, personnel shortages in the clinical laboratory are not unique in the health-care sector. The current nurse vacancy rate of 13% to 15% has drawn the majority of the attention about health-care labor shortages (2).
authors.affiliation: School of Allied Health Professions, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Snyder
mesh_terms: D007753:Laboratories / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017056:Medical Laboratory Personnel / Q000193:education* / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce