The NSH and ASCP are well aware of the lack of schools, but are powerless to do anything about it. With cutbacks in education and healthcare schools and hospitals are cutting back on training as it takes time and money. What type of assistance are you speaking about for the OJT people who have the AA/AS? The ASCP recognizes these individuals through route 2 for the HT (ASCP) exam. One of the reasons that our program and others do not take more students is that we cannot find facilities that are willing to take on the clinical experience for students. Many of the histology labs are unwilling or unable to train students. What type of action would you like the NSH and ASCP to take?
Jennifer MacDonald Pamela Marcum <[email protected]> Sent by: [email protected] 05/08/2011 02:35 PM To Robert Richmond <[email protected]> cc [email protected] Subject Re: [Histonet] Re: Is anybody hiring techs without a certification? Currently we have too few schools and not enough slots in the schools we have for Histology to grow ans educate people properly. It is hard to tell if the ASCP and NSH are just unaware of the issues or not interested as we see schools close and career days at NSH for high school students yet no real action. They need to assist what many of us are doing now - OJT with people who have the AA or AS degree and hope they stay in the field. The majority of people I meet and tell what I do have no idea that the field of Histology exists or how important it can be to a patient having surgery and awaiting a diagnosis. I currently have two people we are training as we can't find qualified people here and at least they are the best we could find. The second issue is pay and the fact that any Histology area controlled by Clinical Laboratory is in an uphill battle to get salaries raised as the CP people all seem to feel if you don't have a BS you can't rate better pay. I do realize we have many MTs in Histology and they usually great for us. It is the management that cannot get by the requirements to help us go forward. They should look at the fact many of the Histologist now working will retire in the next ten years and then where will they be in finding people for this field? Pam Marcum Personal Option ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Richmond" < rsrichmond @ gmail .com> To: histonet @lists. utsouthwestern . edu Sent: Sunday, May 8, 2011 12:38:38 PM Subject: [ Histonet ] Re: Is anybody hiring techs without a certification? Yvette asks: >>Is anybody hiring techs without a certification?<< Is anybody hiring techs WITH a certification? With a coming retirement, the two labs I'm working in now will have NO certified histotechs (total of four workers) - all OJT's . Some of them probably have the educational qualifications to sit the exam, but management isn't very sympathetic - I'll have to buy them a copy of the 3rd edition of Freida Carson's book, for starters. Bob Richmond Samurai Pathologist Knoxville TN _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet @lists. utsouthwestern . edu http ://lists. utsouthwestern . edu /mailman/ listinfo / histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
