From: PAULH@stj.stjosephs.london.on.ca
Date: Mon Mar 13 1995 - 18:29:25 EST
Hi everyone! 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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