Worldwide, medical technologists play a crucial role in performing tests, generating data and executing quality control checks to help healthcare practitioners perform their duties more efficiently. However, it is expected that a greater number of trained medical technologists will be required in the future to meet the upcoming medical challenges and innovations. Advanced and elaborate diagnostic procedures and instruments will require technical expertise that can be provided by trained medical technologists.
Diagnostic monitoring of global diseases can also be better performed by medical technologists. Source: Rheuter ML. Laboratory Medicine 2000; 2(11): 598-99
