Chief medical technologist vs senior medical technologist

Differences between chief medical technologist and senior medical technologist duties and responsibilities

Chief medical technologist example responsibilities.

• Supervise and analyze medical necessity review of manage care appeals.
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• Perform phlebotomy, blood chemistry, hematology, serological tests, blood morphology, gram's stain and acid fast stain.2.
• Implement a microbiology department in the laboratory.
• Perform accurate laboratory testing in chemistry and hematology.
• Follow up as needed with medical facilities/personnel regarding patient information such as treatment plans, medications, rehabilitation, etc.
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Senior medical technologist example responsibilities.

• Perform disease surveillance by collecting and managing food microbiology surveillance data.
• Process hematology, urinalysis, and tissue processing testing on cancer and anemia patients
• Perform database registry for samples, complete QC & QA procedures for all laboratory assays, blood components and storage.
• Perform quality control (QC) and quality assurance (QA) on growth media and reagents in the laboratory.
• Analyze human biological samples (hematology, coagulation, chemistry, and microbiology) for a satellite reference laboratory.
• Maintain all OSHA documents and temperature logs.
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