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[edit] Cleaning Suggestions

I'm a former Med-Tech and I've been revising this page over the past few months. I'm new at this, so specific comments and suggestions (e.g. below) are appreciated.BloodGuru 15:41, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV & Nonencyclopedic entries

Removed/edited sections for non-neutral POV and nonencyclopedic information. Also removed stub tags as someone has kindly given us a great deal of information. While more information is welcome and encouraged to be submitted, please ensure you comply with Wikipedia's rules. --—Preceding unsigned comment added by Kedlav (talk • contribs) 08:29, 19 October 2006

  • Information is VERY american and is not necesssarily accurate for other countries. A notation to this effect would be useful. Links to professional associations / licenture bodies in various countries would be valuable (e.g. www.csmls.org in Canada) --—Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.161.202.182 (talk • contribs) 18:53, 24 January 2007

[edit] Cleanup needed

There is a general need for cleanup on this article. As it stands right now it needs heavy reoranization to make the information flow more coherantly. This includes changing headings and moving information around. The intro is needs to be rewritten to remove POV material and make it a proper summary of the article. The article seems to contain link spam as the list of links at the bottom seems overly large and has no descriptions as to what they refer to or why they aresignificant. Article also needs sourcing. Would someone with some background give it a look over? Is Medical Technologist a general term for this type of health professional? Is it only used by one health care company? Some clarification on this would help. --Lendorien 14:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

  • I've reorganized the sections a bit to try to make it more thematically coherant. Still needs expert attention. As a side note, a look at a lot of the links makes me think that most could be culled. Many seem to be links to medical technology companies and not directly related to the subject matter.--Lendorien 14:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
    • I've given it a bit of an overhaul: cleaned up weak writing, tightened the language to be more encyclopedic, rearranged to provide more logical flow, removed some irrelevant and redundant material, fixed a couple of links, etc. However, it still needs work, most desperately with links and references. There are only a few actual tags, but there is lots of unsupported information that needs to have references cited. Also the list of external links is completely ridiculous and needs desperately to be culled. And finally, I'm still getting a handle on Wikipedia's preferred formatting (section headings, etc) so that probably needs to be touched up as well. I may be back after I cleanse my mental palate, but for now I've done all I can with it. --edi 14:45, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
    • More grammar edits. I also changed the caps on section headings for Medical Technology Specialty Areas, The Medical Technologist's Role in the Healthcare Process and The Medical Technologist's Place in the Hospital. More edits needed. Stevecalloway 18:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
    • Copy-edits to Job Duties. I also changed caps on the Job duties section heading. Stevecalloway 18:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
    • Caps on all section headings. Copy-edits to Certification and licensing. Stevecalloway 11:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
    • Copy-edits to Nomenclature section. I removed the following:

The title "medical laboratory technician" denotes a person who has completed an associates degree and is not certified to perform tests of high complexity[1] under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) of 1988[2]. (Both MTs and MLTs are, however, required to sit for a national examination before being certified.) Thus the MLT should logically be referred to as a med tech, but this is not the case in most settings. Generally, a medical technologist is called a med tech and a medical laboratory technician is called an MLT.

These could possibly be worked back in. The first link clarifies that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has had the authority to implement the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) but makes no reference to MT. The second link is a description of CLIA from the New Mexico Department of Health. A better reference is to the actual Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA) of 1988.

Stevecalloway 12:18, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Linkspam

Someone needs to go through the list of links. It's gotten long and I'm certain most of it is linkspam. --Lendorien 22:21, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

What do you think now? Stevecalloway 11:58, 29 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] internal links from other pages to med tech for increased traffic to med tech

In the "see also" section, those articles should link to med tech from their "see also" sections in order to increase traffic to this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ozmaweezer (talk • contribs) 13:56, August 28, 2007 (UTC)

Sorted, Removed vendor links:

Stevecalloway 13:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Med tech article suggestions

1) Check out the 10/18/2006 05:17 (last) version in the history tab. It is obviously not neutral point of view (NPOV) and it is not exactly "encyclopedic in nature," but it has a lot of good ideas for the article. Here is a link to that page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Medical_technologist&diff=82152964&oldid=82124399

2) The article needs some images like RN, vacutainer, some automated analyzers, laboratory centrifuge, etc.

3) If you visit the biomedical scientist article, pathologist, blood bank, or micro they have boxes of information and links at the bottom of their pages. Shouldn't med tech be included in there somewhere? Shouldn't the box appear at the bottom of the med tech page? Are these boxes called templates?

4) As far as giving the article a world view, I don't have any input on that because I only work in the USA. Someone from England needs to do that I guess. Or merge the article with the Biomedical Scientist article if that's an English Med tech.Ozmaweezer 12:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

3) I suggest you add articles about licensure laws in the US. Most other healthcare professions require licensure and it is atrocious that licensure laws are fought by the AMA and the AHA to prevent having to pay more for licensed laboratory professionals. If the general public was aware that laboratory tests being performed are not being scrutinized as closely due to high work volumes and individuals with little or no credentials (only on the job training for some) and limited continuing education, there would be more concern. The laboratory is "hidden" from public view and phlebotomists drawing the blood are often the only representatives of the laboratory. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Julie 2788 (talk • contribs) 18:33, 5 March 2008 (UTC)