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  • 1.  Montefiore health systems partnership with Bronx community colleges MLT program made the news.

    ASCP Ambassador
    Posted 04-03-2024 11:10

    Greetings,

    The Montefiore Medical system in New York partnered with Bronx Community colleges' MLT program to help intern students at their clinical laboratories. This allowed the program to increase the number of students we can enroll thereby increasing the number of students we can graduate and transition into the laboratories and senior colleges for MLS studies. Please feel free to share this video amongst your network and also encourage laboratories across our beautiful nation to engage with their local lab science and pathology programs to intern students. Help us answer the call to reducing the workforce shortage. Out of the shadows and into the light. 

    https://youtu.be/VbZpB4UpASk?si=OtCoZ0eEPqSJAWk0



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    Diane Price Banks Education Program Director
    Bronx Community College
    Bronx NY
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  • 2.  RE: Montefiore health systems partnership with Bronx community colleges MLT program made the news.

    Posted 04-04-2024 02:06

    Exactly 🏆 💯 

    Media attention and public awareness and attracting future qualified board-certified and right to practice licensed medical laboratory professionals for patient care!

    Kudos to exceptional Laboratory Advocacy!!!

    Quality long-term SOLUTIONS to shortages!!!

    https://biomedres.us/fulltexts/BJSTR.MS.ID.008604.php



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    Angela Tomei Robinson MS MLS ASCP cm
    Ret Assoc Admin Laboratory Medicine
    Adjunct Professor/Clinical Advisor
    Mineola NY
    (516)294-9354
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  • 3.  RE: Montefiore health systems partnership with Bronx community colleges MLT program made the news.

    Posted 04-05-2024 11:05
    This is a great idea.
    So many times, we are in silos in our labs, so public notice regarding these types of collaborations informs professionals as well as the public.

    Publicizing these types of collaborations and our work in labs should have been done during COVID as well.  It would have promoted the visibility of our disciplines and been great for recruiting. 

    Sincerely,

     

    Toysha N. Mayer, DHSc, MBA, HT (ASCP)

    Asst Professor/ Assoc Program Director

    HTL Program

    UTMDACC

    tnmayer@mdanderson.edu

    off cell: 832-710-1837

    off: 713-563-3481

     

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  • 4.  RE: Montefiore health systems partnership with Bronx community colleges MLT program made the news.

    Posted 04-04-2024 08:21

    To enroll into MT program requires credits in Biology, Biochemistry, Microbiology...

    There are many candidates with Chemistry Major or just Microbiology major or Biology major. These candidates do not qualify for MT one year program because they do not have full course requirement.

    Can it be possible to create short program of one specialty clinical rotation?

    Chemistry for chemistry major, Hematology or Blood bank for Biology major?

     






  • 5.  RE: Montefiore health systems partnership with Bronx community colleges MLT program made the news.

    Posted 04-05-2024 11:19
    Our HTL program gets similar types of applicants.  They usually go and take their remaining courses in one semester and will then qualify.  

    Ensuring that they meet the required pre-requisites by communicating with them early on helps.  
    They also have to meet the requirements set forth by ASCP for certification.  I know for MLS there are not as many routes for certification as with other areas.

    Changing requirements can influence how a program is perceived.  

    There is a shortage in all areas of lab medicine, and it will not be going away soon.  Supporting your local program by taking students helps tremendously. Quick fixes cannot be sustained in the long run.

    Sincerely,

     

    Toysha N. Mayer, DHSc, MBA, HT (ASCP)

    Asst Professor/ Assoc Program Director

    HTL Program

    UTMDACC

    tnmayer@mdanderson.edu

    off cell: 832-710-1837

    off: 713-563-3481

     

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