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Student Essential Functions
We are glad that you are interested in the exciting and challenging profession of Medical Technology. If you major in Medical Technology, you will be choosing a healthcare profession where honesty and integrity are critical personal characteristics required both in your academic studies and in the practice of the profession.
To ensure that your decision to pursue a career in Medical Technology is the correct one for you, we ask that you review the Essential Functions by which you will be assessed as a Medical Technology major. The Essential Functions are the non-academic requirements of the Program, and they comprise physical, emotional, and professional demands required of a medical technologist.
The Physical Demands required include:
- Ability to perform manual laboratory procedures with dexterity
- Ability to operate state-of-the-art instruments, including computers
- Ability to use a microscope and differentiate microscopic components
- Ability to perform delicate manipulations which require good eye-hand coordination
The Emotional Demands required include:
- Ability to perform laboratory procedures accurately and quickly even under stressful conditions
- Ability to exercise independent judgment and to think logically in the performance of one's duties
- Ability to organize and to assume responsibility for one's work
The Professional Demands required include:
- Ability to communicate in a professional, positive, tactful manner with patients, physicians, nurses, other healthcare and non-healthcare employees, and fellow laboratory personnel
- Ability to maintain patient confidentiality and to exercise ethical judgment, integrity, honesty, dependability, and accountability in the performance of one's laboratory responsibilities
- Ability to perform laboratory tests carefully while maintaining efficiency and organization
- Ability to exercise critical thinking skills to solve problems
- Ability to project a well groomed, neat appearance
After reviewing the Essential Functions, we hope that you have a clearer understanding of the Program's professional expectations and of the competency that will be required of you. Throughout your professional studies, your ability to meet these standards will be evaluated and assessed.
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