Clinical laboratory scientist training--a need for reform

Current status of US programs for training clinical laboratory scientists and anticipated impact of healthcare reform.

We surveyed directors of medical technology (MT) and postdoctoral clinical chemistry (CC) training programs and of clinical pathology (CP) and combined anatomic/clinical pathology (AP/CP) residency programs regarding the number, quality, training emphasis, and job-placement experience of trainees for 1985-95 as well as the directors' opinions on the impact of "healthcare reform." Responses were...

Health care reform and the clinical laboratory.

Some say clinical laboratories are a significant cause of the ever-increasing cost of health care. How will they fare in the Clinton plan to reform the system?

Rejuvenating clinician-scientist training.

Clinician-scientists are becoming increasingly rare in medicine as a whole, but especially in ophthalmology. There is a structural gap between MD-PhD training and K-series awards where interested candidates go through residency and fellowship without any structured research exposure or involvement. Furthermore, the success rate of the MD-PhD and K awards leaves much to be desired. The authors p...

Is There a Need for Reform?

The very notion of "reform of the international monetary system" is a very modern one in two respects. "Reform" is a conscious act, an act of volition and coordinated will, as distinguished from a series of piecemeal changes that occur as individual actors--banks, business firms, governments--respond to new circumstances, leading over time to change, but not to conscious reform. Second, the not...

Central issues relevant to clinical pharmaceutical scientist training programs.