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In Ontario, the medical laboratory technologists (MLT) now have a
legislated college called College of Medical Technologists of
Ontario. I am involved in the QA Prog. of the college in drafting a
Quality Assurance Program which must reflect all the technologists in
general and specialized laboratories. The implication for a
technologist working in Ontario is that he/she must be registered
with the college to work in a laboratory as a technologist, and must
have a subject or general RT or equivalent.
In this regard, a position came open in a flow laboratory which
historically was a general Registered Technologist position, and the
question was posed, whether any person with a subject RT, or
university science degree could be trained and work in flow cytometry
lab that does primarily clinical work?
I realize in the US that CLIA88 and the new flow cytometry
certification course through ASCP may be the minimum std to work in a
flow cytometry laboratory.
Are there other country, state, or province standardized programs
which address this issue?
The utopia of this idea would be that all the international degrees
could somehow relate to each other. At the moment there is no Canada
wide certification in flow cytometry. Instead flow cytometry reflects
a technology where the technologists are trained to run the flow
cytometers. I realize that the research flow cytometry laboratories
would be staffed by wide variety of personnel, MDs, PhDs,
technicians, etc.
I will be interested in your comments. I do not know if similar
questions have been addressed by the ISAC members.
For your interest, today in London Ont., is a premature spring day
with 18 degrees C, and hardly any snow left.
Paul Harris
Flow Cytometry Laboratory
Dept. of Pathology
St. Joseph's Health Centre
268 Grosvenor Street,
London, Ont. Canada
Phone (519)-646-6100 extension 5918
Fax (519)-646-6088
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