Senior cytogenetic technologist vs senior medical technologist

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

Senior cytogenetic technologist example responsibilities.

• Accomplish at using/troubleshooting with programs such as ASI for image capture/analysis and karyotyping.
• Perform culture, harvest, slide preparations and all wet lab procedures for chromosomal procedures.
• Summarize and sign out results of patients chromosomal studies base on ISCN for directors approval.
• Complete stat and routine testing on a variety of specimens quickly and accurately while adhering to laboratory safety policies and regulations.
• Perform validations for all instrumentations to include esoteric testing such as EIA, RIA, and electrophoresis.
• Serve as a designate technical specialist with respect to protein electrophoresis, atomic absorption spectroscopy and ligand/endocrinology testing.

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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