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Summit on the Shortage of Clinical Laboratory Personnel
SUMMIT I

Group # 2

COMPONENTS OF THE PROBLEM

DECREASE TRAINING/ED. SITES $ SALARY
COMPETING CAREERS/OPTIONS TURNOVER
AGING OF WORKFORCE IMAGE
TRANSITION IN HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
LONG TERM NEEDS VS. NOW PUBLIC RECOGNITION
BROADEN IMAGE WHAT CLS/MT DOES (many things to do with your degree)
REGULATORY ISSUES (compliance) WORKING CONDITIONS
FUNDING FOR EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS EDUCATION PREP
DECREASE NUMBER CLINICAL SITES  
ADVERTISE THE PROFESSION WITH DYNAMIC PEOPLE

AREAS GROUPED

  1. AGING
    • - Generation 'X' mentality (it's a job not a career) dangerous
    • - environment undesirable
    • - image of profession (negative)
    • - internal in labs
    • - external by public
    • - retention of current staff
  2. FINANCIAL
    • - salary
    • - training $$
    • - regulatory changes
  3. TRAINING/EDUCATION
    • - change in curriculum
    • - decrease in clinical sights
    • - attracting qualified candidates
  4. PROFESSION IN TRANSITION
    • - technology developments
    • - competing career opportunities
    • - scope of practice
  5. LONG TERM NEEDS VS. SHORT

DRAFT SOLUTIONS BY AREA

PROFESSION IN TRANSITION

  1. Communication between Tech. Develop. What is in the pipeline?
    • CLMA model = dialogue between vendors
  2. Industry hires personnel. Should have a say in training.
  3. Create new position - Business, Management, Tech. . . . . . Define.
  4. NCQA - HEDIS data
  5. PCTech has alternative career for techs; PCT hired over CLS/MT.
    • Use them to 'push buttons'.

Consensus: optical recognition, computer gene recognition - less super personnel.

  • Define new responsibilities - ôsuper userö.
  • Short term: improve processes we do now.
    • Stuck in old way we do things.
  • Educate physicians decrease test order
  • Educate people who make the rules to change.
  • Set models for smaller labs, how to do tests better

TRAINING / EDUCATION

  1. Change curriculum according to new technology.
  2. Attract qualified candidates
    • Don't be negative
    • Attract K-6 students
    • Increase $
    • Visibility
  3. Cooperative w/industry to fill ôstudent labö with newest equipment to improve .
    • Increase space.
    • Computer programs

"FUTURES CONFERENCE" NAACLS (Sept. 2000)

  • 10 yr. needs for CLS/MT & CLT/MLT

FINANCIAL ISSUES

  1. No hope of more $$
  2. Educate managers to put business plan to justify (to hospital admin., pathologists, etc.) the need for supporting educational programs.

PERSONNEL ISSUES

  1. Attracting new/keeping old - not addressed due to time limits

Elements of a - - "STRATEGIC PLAN"

I. Data Collection to know where we are

II. Marketing to attract young people to the field

III. Recruitment early K-12

IV. Financial support to fund scholarship, what do the students need?

V. Profession in Transition what will techs do in the next 7 yr.

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