[Education of medical technologists in North America].
The increasing complexity of diseases and advancing medical technologies have recently raised the number of test items and their use. This has caused each department to ask for clinical support by medical technologists, including consultation services on clinical laboratory tests in Japan. Under these circumstances, we think it is necessary to consider a Japanese education system for medical technologists to foster people with advanced ability capable in providing adequate clinical support. It is important that we study medical technologist systems and education systems superior to than ours. Therefore, to investigate the state of the Japanese education system for medical technologists, we conducted a comparison between the medical technologist systems and education systems in foreign countries and those of Japan. The social background in which medical technologists are positioned, their scope of work, and the education systems overseas are different from Japan on many points and we were given many suggestions for what a system in Japan should be like.
Kondo
Hiroshi
H
Department of Clinical Laboratory Science, Osaka Prefectural College of Health Sciences, Habikino 583-8555.
Tatsumi
Noriyuki
N
Sakamoto
Hideo
H
Fernandes
Bernard
B
Modi
Gaman
G
Raby
Anne
A
D002170:Canada; D002568:Certification; D003479:Curriculum; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education*; D014481:United States