In this blog post, I am going to show you simple ways you can identify a non-Medical Laboratory Scientist who is perhaps parading his/herself as a Medical Laboratory Scientist.There are many fake Medical Laboratory Scientists out there doing their stock-in-trade freely maybe because it is quite difficult to fish...
The practitioners of Science Laboratory Technology seem to be very determined in their attempt to continue to create confusion in the minds of the unsuspecting public about their true identity.
This is seen in the response by two SLT practitioners, Akpede Akpevwe and Ewhre Oberhiri, to an article that was published...
Being a Medical Laboratory Scientist as we know requires formal education and skill development but in addition, there are certain innate abilities and interests that are of added advantages to becoming exceptional at work, career roles, and creating new career horizons.
Also, there are many unexplored territories that one wonders...
Effective medical lab/physician collaborations to improve how lab tests are ordered and used can deliver big improvements in patient outcomes while reducing healthcare costs.Utilization management of clinical laboratory tests may be the single hottest trend in laboratory medicine today. Across the nation, medical laboratory scientists and pathologists are getting...
By Johnson D. DeliaEveryone seems to be aware of the deadly coronavirus disease also known as COVID-19 which has spread throughout the world resulting in an increasing number of fatalities and an ongoing pandemic.What is the place of the medical laboratory scientist in combatting this deadly disease?TweetOf what effect,...
Dr. Casmir Cajetan Ifeanyi, the recently elected 15th National President of the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) has written to extended his deepest appreciation to Medical Laboratory Scientists for their unwavering support in the recently held Association's Election.
Read the letter of appreciation below:
23 November 2023
To:
All members...
By Chijioke OtikpaI started my journey digital learning further than I can remember.The nearest estimate I can give is the preparation for my JAMB exam 5 years ago that was when sites like myschool.com.ng came in handy, I can’t recall how I stumbled on itI could say I was...
I always laugh when modern-day leaders in the Association of Medical Laboratory Scientists of Nigeria (AMLSN) come to rant about dues payment and how the payment isn't justified.
Over the years, it is very clear to me that proper remuneration and career fulfilment cannot be possible without AMLSN.
For AMLSN to...
By Dr. Ejetavwo GeorgeThe outbreak and rapid spread of the ‘Wuhan virus’ otherwise named by WHO as COVID-19 virus, across the globe was unprecedented and has caused, and continue to cause enormous public health and economic crisis. Most worrisome is the fact that notwithstanding a nation’s status whether high,...
The diagnosis of malaria in most developing countries has relied on parasites being identified by examining under the microscope a drop of the patient’s blood, spread out as a “blood smear” on a microscope slide by a specialist. The introduction of rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) has the potential to...