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Essential Functions

If you major in the Medical Laboratory Science clinical track, you will be choosing a health care profession where honesty and integrity are critical personal characteristics required both in your academic studies and in the practice of the profession. To ensure that your decision to pursue this career is the correct one for you, we ask that you review the Essential Functions by which you will be assessed as a Medical Laboratory Science major. The Essential Functions are the non-academic requirements of the Program, comprising the physical, emotional and professional demands required.

Physical demands required include:

  1. Ability to perform manual laboratory procedures with dexterity.
  2. Ability to operate state-of-the-art instruments, including computers.
  3. Ability to use a microscope and differentiate microscopic components.
  4. Ability to perform delicate manipulations that require good hand to eye coordination.

Emotional demands required include:

  1. Ability to perform laboratory procedures accurately and quickly, even under stressful conditions.
  2. Ability to exercise independent judgement and to think logically in the performance of one's duties.
  3. Ability to organize and to assume responsibility for one's work.

Professional demands required include:

  1. Ability to communicate in a professional, positive and tactful manner with patients, physicians, nurses and other health care and non health care employees, as well as fellow laboratory personnel
  2. Ability to maintain patient confidentiality and to exercise ethical judgment, integrity, honesty, dependability and accountability in the performance of one's laboratory responsibilities.
  3. Ability to perform laboratory tests carefully while maintaining efficiency and organization.
  4. Ability to exercise critical thinking skills to solve problems.