INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
 Is the application of procedures to develop
solutions to medical problems for preventing
disease and promoting good health.
 Refers to diagnostic application of science to
improve health conditions.
 Combines the challenges of basic and clinical
sciences and medicine to a career; study of
diagnostic medicine.
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIST/CLS
 Are medical investigators, performing analyses
using instrumentations to generate test reults.
 Direct and supervise lab operations;
collaboration in diagnosis
 Perform chemical, biological, etc. tests
 Microscopically examine blood and other fluids.
Determine concentration of compounds such as
blood glucose and cholesterol levels.
HISTORY OF MT PROFESSION
Early Beginnings
Hippocrates – scientific medicine; correlation bet.
anatomical and chem lab findings
Vivian Herrick – parasitic infection; Ascaris Lumbricoides
and Taenia Species
Anenzona – Arabian physician; scabies
Williams – Urinalysis; An introduction to the profession
of MT
Falgelson – Italian Physician; University of Bologna
Gillani – died of lab acquired infection
Leewenhoek – invented the microscope; described the
RBC and bacterial classification
North Africa and Southern Europe received medical
education.
Virchow – father of microscopic pathology
Ellis – first to use microscope in examining specimens
Occam – used lab findings
Humbeldt – formulated Apothecaries Act of 1815
Apothecaries Act of 1815 – England and Wales;
treatment of diseases. Anatomy, Botany, Chem,
Material Med, and ‘Physic’. 6 mos exp work in hospital
MT in USA
Univ of Cambridge – part time clinicians teach lab
methods
Harvard Univ – learning by doing
John Hopkins (JH) – 2 years of instructions in basic
sciences
Univ in Michigan – first lab opened
Univ of Pennsylvania – clin lab opened; William Pepper
Laboratory
Welch and Prudden – first in clin patho to diagnosis
Welch – established lab in Bellevue Hospital Medical
College.
Welch – first prof of patho in JH
Dr. Douglas – first to give lab instructions in Univ.
Michigan
Douglas, Osler and Dock – Univ Hosp. in Philadelphia
was established by them
JH Hospital (12x12 – $50) first clin lab by Osler
Todd – Manual of Chemical Diagnosis
Stanford – Clinical Diagnosis by Lab Methods –
reference for labs
State Legislature of Pennsylvania – law for all health
institutions to have complete lab facilities
PHILIPPINES
First clin lab in Phils – 26th Medical Laboratory of the 6th
US Army at Quiricada Street Sta. Cruz Manila
26th ML of the 6th US Army – provided 1 year training to
high school grads
De Roda – Filipino bacteriologist, preserve the
laboratory
Icasiano – first city health officer in manila
Public Health Laboratory re-established by De Roda and
Sta. Ana
1947 – free training as medical technicians
De Roda instructed Sta. for syllabus for training; 6 mos
training was required
Briones – joined the 2 doctors
1954 – 4-year BSMT course was offered by Philippines
Union College of Baesa
Umali – first student who graduated. Pursued OB-
Gynecologist and owner of Omega Lab.
Hedrick – founder of MT Edu in Phil. Also Adventist
McKelvey – prepared course curriculum for BSMT
Gabriel and Reyes – offered pharma graduates to MT
course in UST Pharmacy
Centro Escolar Univ – BSMT course
FEU – BSMT course as well
NATURE AND SCOPE OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY
MULTIFACETED NATURE OF MT
 Substantial Procedural
 Investigative Complicity
 Intermedical Procedural Interference
 Assiduous Partner
 Circumstantial Medical Evidences