Monday, November 18, 2013

Histology Specialist

Duties and Responsibilities: Histology specialists work in hospital, pharmacy, veterinary clinics, and research laboratories.  The types of things Histology Specialist do are cut sections of body tissues for microscopic examination using microtomes. Teach students or other staff.  They specialize in working with and preparing microscopic tissue samples. They work with tissue samples from humans, plants or animals to test in a microscope.

Salary: $22,000 - $35,000 (Histologic technicians)
$30,000 - $50,000 (Histologists)

Education: To become a Histology Specialist student must have to take the challenging high school courses Math, English, Science. Students must either earn an associate’s degree or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab or a one year internship.


 Reflection: Do you think you would like to be a Histology Specialist? Why or Why not? This would be something interesting to work as it seems interesting and I really would like to learn more about the types of training they have.

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