What will I learn in a clinical assistant degree or training program?
Clinical assistants are those who help in medical laboratories in the preparation, the conducting and collating the results of the lab tests done to find out what is ailing a patient. A degree or training program in this filed will therefore teach you all the things you will need to know to be able to do this job. This will include the use and care of the various types of machines and equipment in such laboratories as well as the various tests themselves. What it does not do is teach you what the treatments themselves should be, that's the responsibility of the medical staff: you are there to provide them with your especial knowledge and expertise just as they are theirs.
What will a clinical assistant degree or training program qualify me for?
The most obvious job or career is as a clinical assistant (average salary about $31,000) but there is a further one available, indeed many do this. The training as a clinical assistant plus some experience of the actual job can be used to train further to become a clinical technologist ($46,000) or a manager or trainer of further clinical assistants. The advantage here is that you can, by being in work, possibly take advantage of some employer subsidies to pay for that further training.
