I saw such a picture on the Internet the other day.
The test in the picture refers to the specialty of medical testing technology. Let's start with a brief history of its development.
Medical Laboratory Technology, four years of study, graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree. It is an undergraduate major set in 2012.
Before 2012, there was no major in medical laboratory technology, only a five-year medical laboratory major, which belonged to the clinical medicine category and graduated with a bachelor's degree in medicine. As the name suggests, graduates of medical laboratory can obtain a practicing physician qualification certificate, which belongs to the sequence of clinicians and can become a doctor.
However, since 2012, the Ministry of Education has updated the undergraduate professional catalog, changing the 5-year medical laboratory major to a 4-year medical laboratory technology major, and students graduate with a bachelor of science degree. At the same time, it no longer belongs to the clinical medical profession, but belongs to the medical technology category together with medical imaging technology, oral medicine technology, medical experimental technology and other majors. Graduates are unable to obtain a practicing physician qualification and are changed from a clinician sequence to a laboratory technician sequence.
On August 9, 2021, the Ministry of Education announced the application materials for undergraduate majors, and Chongqing Medical University, Hebei Medical University, China Medical University and other colleges and universities added a 5-year undergraduate professional clinical laboratory and diagnostics. In other words, after changing the 5-year system to a 4-year system in 2012, there is now a trend back to a 5-year system. Therefore, there will be the concern of this netizen at the beginning. If not done well, the students who have studied medical laboratory technology for this decade will become as awkward as sandwich cookies.
From the perspective of the job market, good cities and good hospitals, 4-year medical laboratory technology graduates are likely to compete for no more than 5 years.
Suggestion: In the past, when students wanted to apply for medical majors, medical testing technology was often used to the bottom, which was an acceptable major, and now fill in volunteers must be cautious, pay more attention to the dynamics of the Ministry of Education and related medical university professional adjustments; students who have applied for the examination, as soon as possible employment and occupation, can also consider changing majors according to their wishes.