Medical Technician

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes performing technical medical laboratory support work such as laboratory tests or examinations (chemical, microbiologic, hematologic or blood banking); and performing phlebotomy procedures such as venipuncture, capillary puncture, or glucose tolerance testing. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-04).

OR Education: Four year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major study or at least 24 semester hours in subjects directly related to the position, such as, Medical Laboratory Technology, Microbiology, Chemistry, or Biology or a related field. OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.Then divide your semester hours of education beyond two years (total semester hours minus 60) by 60. Add the two percentages. **Preferred: National Medical Laboratory Technician Certification

Work as a phlebotomy technician.,Obtain venous and capillary blood specimens from adult sand children.,Prepare phlebotomy site for proper specimen collection.,Label specimens in front of the patient after collection with proper patient labels.,Perform processing procedures such as: centrifugation, splitting serum/plasma specimens into labeled aliquot tubes.,Administer appropriate (50 gram, 75 gram, 100 gram) glucola required for glucose tolerance testing.,Provide instructions to the patient for testing.,Processe specimens in accordance with SOPs or established requirements.