Comments on: Three Years After BS Medical Technology Graduation: Lessons, Wisdoms, and Thoughts

By: Erick

Erick — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 07:35:28 +0000

I just read this article and kinda put me down z bit. However, if it was easy there’d be tons of medical technologyst With a bachelors degree. The job money part im really not concerned cause my father owns a lab. Yet i simpathyze with those who feel their career in undeapreciated. I plan to apply for medical school. I finished 2 nd year of medical scool in Cuba when i was 19 years old. Now im 37 and i need to know if med school is going to consider my MLTBS seriously or im going to have to start taking sciences once more . Can anybody comment on this please………????

By: yen,RMT

yen,RMT — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 07:30:38 +0000

wow! I’ve read your entry. everything you said is definitely true! The Medical Technology course is, indeed, a nightmare! on my case, it all started when i first encounter all our major subjects (like, Clin. Chem, Micro-Para, Hema, Histopath, Microscopy, etc). W-O-W! try having ALL of that at once! i can remember sleepless nights trying to memorize the appearance of different ova, crystals and (for some instance) create an imaginary picture of blood films in my head! because tomorrow, your know-it-all professor will give you practical exams and endless quizzes about it! not only it’ll make you recognize images (like they are your long lost friends…), but you also have to know their clinical effects on the body. and thats where CC comes up! you just need to know everything! as if that wasn’t enough, you also have Bacte to fill your near-bursting head! gossssh, the AGARS!! i mean, come on!!! XXX it will certainly dry, and slowly kill your head. and surprisingly, I’m just starting!

remember i told you about those sleepless nights? oh well. you haven’t seen it all until you’re an intern. Sleepless nights??? oh no! they are LOOOOOOONG, TIRING, and (God forbid) TOXIC nights of your life. you just keep working and working until you smell like crap. and i do mean, crap. because we’re studying poo all the time! its a shower of poo and pee! and if you’re lucky, you’ll have semen analysis after! ugh. seriously.?!

but i can say, that it was one of the most exciting part of my life. after all the crazy stuff, at the end of the day, you’ll just laugh about it! it was crazy. but the good kind of crazy.

its just sad that MedTechs are not being acknowledge properly in the Medical Field. After all the Academic pressures and the hardship you put into work, the patients only recognize the nurses and their doctors. Like, we are always the “Other” Health Alliances of the Medical era.

to those aspiring MedTechs, just go on! its gonna be rough and hard. but it’ll be worth it. be a shit-smelling, pee-adoring Blood suckers now! (yes, we’re the new era of vampires..)

By: rgtenyoueyesee

rgtenyoueyesee — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:07:13 +0000

At present 2012, Medical Technologists are highly paid in the Philippines as well as in other countries like the UAE, US, and AU. There is an increasing demand for medical technologists in our country because many of our RMTs prefer working abroad for the reason stated above. We cannot compare the salary of nurses to our profession. They maybe paid considerably higher than us but their workload is way overboard compared to our “relatively easier” and mostly-automated job inside the laboratory. Nurses need to literally wipe the asses of patients but we do not. I would rather choose to deal with the patient’s stool than touch their body parts.
Being a graduate of the course, I am proud because no matter how tiresome and challenging our work gets, I still have time in the laboratory to sit down and wonder what work I can have my hands do.

By: Ompong

Ompong — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:58:05 +0000

For those aspiring to migrate for better salaries I would suggest Canada or Australia since both of these countries have more liberal immigration policies for skilled workers. Contrast that with the horrendous wait times and highly restrictive policies and procedures in the US.

Canada and Australia, I believe have two extra years of schooling compared to the Philippines which is the main reason why a lot of professional Pinoys are only considered as vocational graduates even after graduating from college. So the best advice for the aspirants is to get at least a Masteral or better yet even a Doctorate to overcome the higher Canadian education standard.

By: djitz

djitz — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:55:53 +0000

@grodergave, LOL! I like your joke..

By: grodergave

grodergave — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:56:48 +0000

Thanks djitz!

After scrolling down and reading almost all of the comments, I have decided that the best pre-med course for me is BS in Physical Therapy xD

“The patients need a Doctor, while Doctors need MedTech”

But I say..

“After the Doctors and MedTech’s vigorous day work, they’ll need a good soothing massage,” that’s where Physical Therapist comes xD

By: FROI

FROI — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:29:34 +0000

I ‘am a bs medtech for 20 yrs but i ‘am not bright or highly intelligent during my school days to my luck i was hired to work first into genetic lab. I was exposed on diff. work here like in molecular , genetics and biochemical it is hard but a good learning experience to me and happy to what I achieve as med. tech.. Don’t loose hope and idealism for your course cause you will not know where your are going to land as you graduate. Good Luck med techs.

By: djitz

djitz — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:49:43 +0000

@Yana, there a lot of ways how people know about BSMT, and that’s fine if you’re enjoying it.

Biomedical Engineering is different from Medical Technology, because the earlier involved engineering (designing and creating tools), that is almost non-existent in BSMT. Actually that’s probably why BSMT name is changed to Medical Laboratory Science, because Medical Technology name misleads people most of the time.

By: Yana

Yana — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 17:41:01 +0000

I am a freshman taking BS Medical Technology.
I didn’t know that the course existed until I learned it from my classmate who was to take it. My course in mind back then was something related to engineering but I have low confidence on myself, thinking it was a man’s job (since I heard most of those who take it are guys and they’re more preferred by companies [I was pretty scared on this part]), and I well, uhm, I’m not seriously good dealing with guys. I know it was a funny thing I considered this idea over my interest.
Anyway, although I never thought I’ll be taking a course under the medical field, I am doing great. I made it on the DL and I’m doing well in chemistry.
But I still have doubts in my mind. Am I on the right track?
By the way, what is Biomedical Engineering? Is it somehow related on our field?

By: DeX

DeX — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:26:35 +0000

hi,
I was researching my course and came across ur page , i thought it was fabulous, thankz for the advice ,
Im currently in 2nd yr in biomedical technology in south africa ,
im speculating my decision for taking the course. .
i think most people took the course becoz med school far frm reach n med tech is a stepping stone ,

im extremely passionate about being in the medical field bt not in the way medtech is offering , being n doc was n dream of mine n still is ,

there is alot of pressure in the field its true, honestly i cope quite well and my marks are not that bad ..

i neva thought that this course would b what i made out to , i knw ppl hd high hopes . . .

i think all im asking is for some advice …
passionately wanting to be n doc

mwaaaahz..