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Lately, laboratories are more and more actively in search of workers amongst college students as nicely”, says Dr. Dr. Ingrida Pumputiene.

In the meanwhile, Lithuanian diagnostic laboratories are missing biomedical technologists probably the most. One of many causes, based on dr. I. Pumputienės, there’s a false perception prevailing within the society that the laboratories of well being care establishments are staffed by workers of 1 specialty, who’re merely referred to as laboratory technicians.

Private archive photograph/I. Pumputienė

“This isn’t true. Representatives of three specialties work within the laboratories: biomedical technologists, medical biologists and medical doctors of laboratory medication. Representatives of those professions instantly contribute to the effectivity of affected person therapy (illness analysis and monitoring), illness prevention and elevating the final degree of medication in Lithuania. “Biomedical technologists are the primary, maybe a very powerful, hyperlink of the laboratory, on which the efficiency of the laboratory diagnostic take a look at, its high quality and the reliability of the outcomes rely,” says the professional.

The lecturers of VIKO additionally agree with the Lithuanian Society of Laboratory Medication (LLMD) Vilnius department chairman Dr. Inga Bikulčienė. In accordance with her, analysis carried out by biomedical technologists permits medical doctors to shortly and precisely diagnose ailments, shortly begin therapy and successfully monitor the situation of sufferers and create individualized therapy plans. Additionally they perform preventive laboratory checks for ailments, which permit to note the early indicators of the illness.

“This can be very vital that as many ultimate grade college students and their dad and mom find out regarding this career as potential. There ought to be extra details regarding the opportunity of selecting the trail of a biomedical technologist, in order that future college students who need to join their future with actions within the laboratory get to know extra regarding this specialty. Furthermore, solely two increased schooling establishments in Lithuania supply this research program. Those that have accomplished it typically go to work overseas”, I.Bikulčienė explains the explanation for the shortage of biomedical technologists.

The job is obtainable already within the second yr

Dr. I. Pumputienė reveals that college students of the biomedical diagnostics research program obtain their first job gives already within the second yr of their research throughout internships.

“Such good employment alternatives are assured by the at present extraordinarily excessive demand for biomedical technologists and the comparatively low provide.” VIKO Biomedical Diagnostics research program college students purchase not solely theoretical but in addition sensible information from the primary yr.

They’ve a variety of sensible lessons, and following every course they carry out practicals in actual working circumstances within the laboratories of varied establishments, the place they deepen their information of performing microbiological, cytological, histological, hematological, biochemical and molecular checks. “Future specialists be taught shortly, so within the final yr of their research, nearly everybody who needs to get a full-time job in laboratories”, says Dr. I. Pumputienė.

An instance of that is Auksė Jorudaitė, a third-year scholar of the VIKO SPF Biomedical Diagnostics research program who has been working within the pathology laboratory for the second yr.

Private archive photograph/A. Jorudaitė

“When selecting my research, I used to be in search of a program the place I might plunge into follow with out ready for something. By selecting the trail of biomedical technologist at Vilnius Faculty, I hit the precise spot. Already following my first skilled follow, I obtained a job in a pathology laboratory. As a third-year scholar, I’m already efficiently working in my specialty,” the VIKO scholar shares her expertise.

In accordance with Auksė, probably the most gratifying factor at work is the chance to assist folks detect most cancers earlier: “Early analysis permits the required therapy to be began on time and subsequently will increase survival. It isn’t solely attention-grabbing, but in addition a really motivating side of my profession.”

Not simply trying by way of a microscope

Auksė additionally says that it isn’t unusual to listen to from these round you that they solely work with a microscope within the laboratory. In accordance with her, that is one other false perception.

“The newest applied sciences, in fact, don’t bypass work within the laboratory both – most processes are at present automated and computerized. The work with the microscope is barely a really small half, primarily checking that the samples meet high quality management necessities. We rotate our office each week, so each time we’ve got to work with totally different laboratory instruments and fashionable units. That is what fascinates me regarding working in a laboratory – little routine, fixed enchancment and a variety of issues I see every single day. And never essentially by way of a microscope”, smiles A. Jorudaitė.