title: Education and training of medical technologists in Italy.
abstract: The role and figure of biomedical laboratory technologists have undergone important changes over the past decades. The increasingly complex functions and responsibility of biomedical laboratory technologists both require an updated education and training process. Here, we describe the current situation in Italy regarding the education of biomedical laboratory technologists and the results of a survey conducted in 28 universities. A significant variability between the different universities was observed regarding both the teaching subjects and the distribution of credits among the different courses. The results of this survey highlight that a greater uniformity in the distribution of credits and a better balance among teaching sectors might be advisable.
authors.affiliation: Polo Universitario delle Professioni Sanitarie, Rovereto, Italy. gianni.casna@apss.tn.it
authors.forename: Gianni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Casna
mesh_terms: D000488:Allied Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education*