Project Overview
Project Description:
My senior project is on learning what goes into being a Medical Lab Technician and what they do everyday. I want my knowledge to grow in this career area and see if it is something I am really interested in or not. This is a possible career choice I have in mind to become when I’m older, and I want to explore it more in depth than reading about it on the internet or from someone else. I want to take what I learned in my biology, chemistry, and math classes and apply that older knowledge with the newer skills and knowledge I will gain by learning from my mentor to analyze and make slides, and perform different situations and procedures. Why did I chose this? I chose to see what lab technician does everyday because I think I would have a better idea of what I’m learning about in college and then later after college to know what it’s like. Through this project, I hope to learn if I would like to go into this field of work and enjoy what I do. |
My background experience in this area:
I have went to the Mayo Health Career Day and I got an overview of what a Medical Lab Technician does. How is this project a stretch? This project is a stretch for me because I don’t know much about being in an “official” lab in comparison to a biology class lab, and what the “do’s” and “don’ts” are of being in an “official” lab, so I don’t mess up a procedure or contaminate a sample. This is a stretch also because I do not want to mess anything important up, and I am going in to a building and a lab that I’ve never been to before. |
Project Samples
This is when I went to the Mayo Clinic Vincent Stabile Building in Rochester. This was the Student Lab that I could take pictures of, and she showed me some pictures of the red blood cells that they analyze for certain abnormalities and diseases.
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The picture on the left are some of the procedures for each of the labs that Lab Techs have to follow perfectly with every one of the tests they run. The picture in the center are all of the papers that Lab Techs have to read through so COVID-19 can be tested in their laboratories. The video file on the right is me flipping through all of the papers in the center to give a better idea of how much it is.
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