[Histonet] Job openings and no candidates

[Pam Marcum]

If I understand this correctly your students would need to find a hospital with a pathologist willing to allow them to work for one year as basically a lab aide while they are getting the Histology training they need to qualify and sit for the registry.    Honestly, I wish your students were closer to us as I learned a great deal from TEM and had to do it alone.  It has helped me in many areas of Histology over the years.  The 2 year degree allows you to sit for the registry after being a trainee in Histology for one year as stated above.  While the basic reagents are different there is enough crossover with EM and Histology to give the person a great balance for doing both areas.  You might want to keep a couple of basic Histology texts around for them to see and look over for tips.  
  
Maybe you could even get a local hospital to allow your students to tour the lab.  Little Rock has one Histology School with limited enrollment and are part of the enrichment program.  We have each of the students in our lab for two weeks to see what we do and how we are different from other labs they work in.  It is really a two week job interview in a way.  We get to see them in action and judge their interest and participation in the work place.  
Tell them not be discouraged please and it might be an option for your school to contact hospitals or have them do it for possible training.  They just need to know how to present what they have learned and integrate it with Histology.  
  
Pam Marcum 
UAMS 
Little Rock AR 
  

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jon Krupp" <jkrupp at deltacollege.edu> 
To: "Histonet" <histonet at lists.utsouthwestern.edu> 
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2015 11:31:56 AM 
Subject: Re: [Histonet] Job openings and no candidates 

I have been following this and would like to ask a few questions. 

I am part of a community college electron microscope training program. We teach the fundamentals of both biological and materials EM, both SEM and TEM. 

Our biological students learn plastic sectioning for LM and EM. They do not learn much paraffin technique, but the ones I have shown have caught on quickly. 

They have all been exposed to fixation, dehydration, and embedding in plastic. They all know how to work safely in a lab. 

Most finish with an associates degree in general science, so they all have basic chemistry, biology, etc. They do not have anything like a real histology course. 

While our materials students seem to find jobs, especially in nearby computer firms like Intel, IBM, Western Digital etc., our bio students have a harder time. 

Some have asked about histology, I show them the ASCP rules and they get discouraged, thinking they will never find a place to get in that year of OJT. 

There are few NACCLS programs in our area, and some of the course work in such a program would be redundant for our students. 

What is the likelihood that some of my students would qualify for OJT in a histology lab, and how can I alert them to the possibilities? 

Jon 

Jonathan Krupp 
Applied Science, Business & Technology 
San Joaquin Delta College 
5151 Pacific Ave. 
Stockton, CA  95207 
209-954-5284 
jkrupp at deltacollege.edu 

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