Occupation Atlasmedical laboratory assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/0044c991-c26f-4261-a213-4bd1c0564a4c
medical laboratory assistant
Medical laboratory assistants work under supervision of the biomedical scientist and carry out basic laboratory procedures. They work in the pre-analytical handling of samples such as checking the details of specimens received for analysis, maintaining analysers, loading reagents, and packaging specimens. They also perform clerical tasks such as monitoring the stock levels of reagents used in analysis.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
IRCInvestigative · Realistic · Conventional — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative6.15
- R Realistic5.81
- C Conventional4.99
- S Social2.77
- E Enterprising1.51
- A Artistic1.13
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists (29-2011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (29)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply safety procedures in laboratory
- archive healthcare users' records
- automated analysers in the medical laboratory
- blood type classification
- calibrate laboratory equipment
- check the received biological samples
- communicate in healthcare
- conduct routine blood testing
- examine cell specimens microscopically
- identify patients' medical records
- label blood samples
- laboratory techniques
- maintain laboratory equipment
- maintain medical laboratory equipment
- microbiology-bacteriology
- mix chemicals
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis
- perform laboratory tests
- perform sample testing
- prepare samples for testing
- record test data
- send samples to laboratory
- techniques of blood-sampling
- test chemical samples
- transport blood samples
- use chemical analysis equipment
- wear appropriate protective gear
- work safely with chemicals
Optional (43)
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- biological chemistry
- blood collection on babies
- blood donation
- blood transfusion
- carry out flow cytometry
- carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
- clinical biochemistry
- clinical cytology
- collect biological samples from patients
- conduct cancer screening tests
- cryopreservation
- data protection
- densiometry
- dermapathology
- dispose medical waste
- electroencephalography
- examine samples in dermatology
- explain the molecular basis of a disease to patients
- fine-needle aspiration
- histopathology
- immunology
- interpret hematological test results
- interpret medical results
- interpret urology diagnostic tests
- maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
- microscopic techniques
- monitor stock level
- order supplies
- paediatric phlebotomy procedures
- perform PCR covid test
- perform bone marrow transplant
- perform fertility laboratory procedures
- perform reconstructive microsurgery
- perform stem cell transplantation
- stem cells
- sterilise medical equipment
- tissue cytogenetics
- urolithiasis in the urinary tract
- virology
- work with chemicals
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 29 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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chemistry technician
7 shared · 20 more of its ownmix chemicals, use chemical analysis equipment, maintain laboratory equipment, test chemical samples
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biomedical scientist
7 shared · 91 more of its ownautomated analysers in the medical laboratory, perform cerebrospinal fluid analysis, techniques of blood-sampling, maintain medical laboratory equipment
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