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Medical Laboratory Science Education in Australia: An Academic Review
Medical Science Educator, Vol.34, pp.891-899
2024
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Abstract
Medical Laboratory Scientists contribute to pathology organizations to provide medical testing for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease. To meet patient medical testing demands in Australia, an employment projection of moderate growth by 2026 in Medical Laboratory Scientists is predicted. This requires an experienced academic workforce that is competent in Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) teaching supported by MLS research to graduate skilled MLS students to fill this void. However, there is little known about the academics that teach undergraduate MLS and whether there is a shortage of experienced educators and graduates. A mixed-method descriptive cross-sectional study design was used to identify 125 MLS academics to recruit and collect quantitative and qualitative survey data from 2019 to 2021. Over half of the survey respondents had never worked as a Medical Laboratory Scientist, and less than a third had an undergraduate degree in MLS. The breadth and depth of academic teaching and research interest were wide and covered both MLS and non-MLS themes.
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- Title
- Medical Laboratory Science Education in Australia: An Academic Review
- Authors
- Rebecca Gusset (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - BiomedicineRebecca Donkin (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health - Biomedicine
- Publication details
- Medical Science Educator, Vol.34, pp.891-899
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1007/s40670-024-02057-1
- ISSN
- 2156-8650
- Copyright note
- This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
- Data Availability
- The datasets used and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
- Grants
- Who is educating our future Scientists? Benchmarking academics and student outcomes in AIMS accredited medical laboratory science (MLS) programs in Australia, 0980027086, Australian Institute of Medical and Clinical Scientists
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Biomedicine; Cancer Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991025398802621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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