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California's biotech and medical device
industries are selling more products and
employing more people despite the recession,.
Biomedical companies and hospitals need
licensed clinical laboratory scientists
to carry out diagnostic tests and other
lab tasks to support medical treatment and
research. If the state quadrupled its output
of such workers, it wouldn't meet the need
in hospitals alone. And more such workers
are being sought by companies that are steadily
developing an array of gene-based tests
to match each patient with the best treatment,
part of a biotech approach called "personalized
medicine." (SFGate 1/13/10)
•8% of veterinary pathology positions
are unfilled.
•Confirmed a critical shortage of
veterinary anatomic and clinical pathologists
•550 Veterinary Pathologists
•110 Veterinary Clinical Pathologists
According to data from the Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) and the 2000 American Society
for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Registry's
Wage and Vacancy Survey, vacancy rates for
5 of the 10 essential laboratory staff positions
are at a 12-year high. The ASCP survey identified
a 7 to 20% vacancy rate for laboratory positions
that hospitals and clinical laboratories
could not fill due to the lack of qualified
candidates.
In addition, the BLS data indicate that
the U.S. graduates fewer than half the number
of clinical laboratory personnel needed
to staff the country's clinical laboratories.
It is estimated that U.S. laboratories will
need approximately 12,400 professionals
annually, between 2002 and 2010. The average
number of clinical laboratory personnel
expected to enter the job market is approximately
4,200 people per year.
BLS projects that by the year 2012, we
will need 69,000 more clinical laboratory
scientists/medical technologists and 68,000
more clinical/medical laboratory technicians
than we had in 2002. |
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