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Clarke, John Walter
(1980).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.0000fcb2
Abstract
A group of medical laboratory technicians has been surveyed in order to determine ways in which the effectiveness of the existing arrangements and provisions for their education and training may be improved.
Information and opinion was obtained by questionnaire. The survey population comprised all students attending courses in medical laboratory sciences at a regional college of technology during the academic year 1975 - 76.
The data obtained provides a portrait of the existing situation pertinent to the education and training of medical laboratory technicians.
The major characteristics of the survey subjects, the factors which influenced their entry to the career and their membership of the professional body, the arrangements and provisions made for their academic study, and laboratory training and their opinions of these processes, and the perceived and desired interrelationship of college study and laboratory training, are described.
Analysis has been made of the influence of certain independant variables upon the provisions made for study and for training and upon students® opinions of the quality of these provisions.
Arrangements and provisions for college study are found to be well- established. The extent to which students were satisfied with study arrangements and facilities is shown to be significantly dependant upon their mode of college attendance. There is evidence of room for improvement in several aspects of college study provision.
Laboratory training is shown to operate on a relatively casual basis. The amount of training provided and the manner of its provision is seen to be significantly dependant upon the type of course which students attended and upon the institution in which they were trained. There is evidence of room for improvement in the content, provision and regulation of laboratory training.
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