The Library provides books, magazines, journals, newspapers, CD-ROMs, videos, online databases, and other materials for your research needs. In addition to our collection, we offer one-on-one reference assistance and classes in research strategies and skills.

This Research Guide is designed to help you become familiar with some of the Medical Laboratory Technology resources available from the Miami Dade College, Medical Center Campus Library. If you need assistance, please contact a librarian by phone at (305) 237-4087 or by email/chat.

I. Duty to the Patient

Clinical laboratory professionals are accountable for the quality and integrity of the laboratory services they provide. This obligation includes maintaining individual competence in judgment and performance and striving to safeguard the patient from incompetent or illegal practice by others.

Clinical laboratory professionals maintain high standards of practice. They exercise sound judgment in establishing, performing and evaluating laboratory testing.

Clinical laboratory professionals maintain strict confidentiality of patient information and test results. They safeguard the dignity and privacy of patients and provide accurate information to other health care professionals about the services they provide.

II. Duty to Colleagues and the Profession

Clinical laboratory professionals uphold and maintain the dignity and respect of our profession and strive to maintain a reputation of honesty, integrity and reliability. They contribute to the advancement of the profession by improving the body of knowledge, adopting scientific advances that benefit the patient, maintaining high standards of practice and education, and seeking fair socioeconomic working conditions for members of the profession.

Clinical laboratory professionals actively strive to establish cooperative and respectful working relationships with other health care professionals with the primary objective of ensuring a high standard of care for the patients they serve.

III. Duty to Society

As practitioners of an autonomous profession, clinical laboratory professionals have the responsibility to contribute from their sphere of professional competence to the general well being of the community.

Clinical laboratory professionals comply with relevant laws and regulations pertaining to the practice of clinical laboratory science and actively seek, within the dictates of their consciences, to change those which do not meet the high standards of care and practice to which the profession is committed.

American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS), Code of Ethics

Search the Library Catalog to find print books, ebooks and media, such as videos, CDs, CD-ROMs, and audio cassettes.

*Please note: Our electronic resources have restricted access and are only available to Miami Dade College students, faculty or staff with a current login. 

Most universities and colleges use the Library of Congress Classification System to organize their materials. Items are arranged A-Z, with each letter corresponding to a subject area. Most MLT materials are shelved in the following areas:

Following is a list of Journals in Medical Laboratory Technology and related fields subscribed to by the Miami Dade College, Medical Center Campus. By following the link, you can find the latest issue received by the library and other holding information.

Archives of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (online access to fulltext articles is available only in the library)

Clinical Laboratory Science (contact the Library for passwords for online access to fulltext articles)

Drug Topics

Journal of Allied Health (contact the Library for passwords for online access to fulltext articles)

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) (contact the Library for passwords for online access to fulltext articles)

Journal of Histotechnology

Medical Laboratory Observer

New England Journal of Medicine (online access to fulltext articles is available only in the library)

Following is a list of Medical Laboratory Technology Journals available on the web. The Library does not currently subscribe to print copies of these journals. 

Advance for Medical Laboratory Professionals: fulltext from January 16, 1995-present.

Blood: fulltext available beginning in January 1990. Fulltext is not available for the last year.

Lancet: selected articles from June 1996-present are freely available from the publisher's website at http://www.thelancet.com. Fulltext from January 1991-present available via Academic Search Premierand Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition; fulltext from March 1990-present available via General Reference Center Gold, Health & Wellness Resource Center and InfoTrac OneFile.

Miami Dade College's Libraries subscribe to a number of online databases that provide access to full text reference materials, such as medical dictionaries, and to periodicals, such as journals and magazines.

Please note: Our electronic resources have restricted access and are only available to MDC students, faculty or staff with a current login

Click here for descriptions of the health & medicine databases & tutorials on how to login & search them.

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AIDS Info

What you will find: offers information on HIV/AIDS treatment, prevention, and research. Topics include a drug database, clinical trials, and vaccine research.

American Association of Blood Banks

What you will find: provides a searchable directory of international blood donation centers. It also offers information about testing of donor blood for infectious diseases and information about transfusions.

American Red Cross

What you will find: provides information about red cross services, such as disaster preparedness, CPR, AIDS, swimming & babysitting courses. Also provides information about volunteer and donation opportunities.

Atlas of Hematology

What you will find: provides pictures, showing normal cells from blood and bone marrow and continuing to a substantial variety of diseases, such as leukemias, anemias, and carcinomas.

Bloodline

What you will find: this online resource for hematology education and news features hematological images and slides and hematological case studies.

Career Guidance Resources on the Internet

What you will find: scroll to the bottom of the page for links to the websites for Occupational Outlook Handbook, Florida Health Careers, Choices Planner and other career related sites.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

What you will find: provides up-to-date information on many aspects of health care, including diseases and conditions, vaccines and immunizations, and emergency preparedness and response. It also includes a section with health statistics. Within the CDC is the Division of Laboratory Systems, which has information on the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act (CLIA).

Chemistry: WebElements Periodic Table

What you will find: provides an interactive periodic table. An audio and textual description is provided of each element.

DNA from the Beginning

What you will find: provides a website that covers the basics of DNA, genes, and heredity. Each concept is explained with dynamic animations, video interviews, and image galleries.

Florida Coalition of Professional Laboratory Organizations, Inc. (FCPLO)

What you will find: FCPLO is a network of professional medical laboratory organizations in the state of Florida. Their website provides news related to the professional, especially legislative issues.

Florida Department of Health: Clinical Laboratory Personnel

What you will find: provides applications for renewal or new clinical laboratory licenses, Florida Statutes pertinent to clinical laboratory personnel and continuing education information.

What you will find: maintained by the National Library of Medicine, this site offers information about testing to identify changes in a person's genes, chromosomes, or proteins.

What you will find: features 1,247 vibrant engravings—many in color—from the classic 1918 publication.

Guide to Clinical Laboratory Testing

What you will find: offers information on over 2,000 medical laboratory tests and test combinations performed to detect medical conditions and illnesses, including HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. An index of trace elements is also included.

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

What you will find: links to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance procedures.

Healthy People 2010

What you will find: a statement of national health objectives designed to identify the most significant preventable threats to health and to establish national goals to reduce these threats.

Introduction to Safety in the Chemistry Lab

What you will find: a flash based tutorial on lab equipment and basic safety measures. Includes an interactive quiz.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

What you will find: the United State's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body for health care organizations and programs.

KidsHealth for Parents: Medical Tests & Exams

What you will find: one section of this site provides information for parents on medical tests and exams that might be performed on their child(ren).

Lab & Diagnostic Tests

What you will find: provides thorough information on test samples types, normal values, purposes of testing, and clinical implications.

Lab Tests Online

What you will find: intended to aid the patient in better understanding clinical lab tests, this site describes why different types of lab tests are given and how to interpret the results. It also describes different conditions and diseases and preventive screening measures that can be taken. This site is searchable by test name or the name of the condition or disease, including HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Laboratory Testing

What you will find: provides information about the accuracy of laboratory tests along with information about interpreting laboratory test results. This site includes specialty sections on transfusion medicine and urinalysis.

Laboratory Tests that Detect Cancer

What you will find: part of the Cancer Cure Foundation's website, this section provides information about cancer detection and prevention laboratory tests that are considered alternative or less toxic than standard, conventional laboratory tests.

MedlinePlus

What you will find: includes a Medical Encyclopedia, Medical Dictionary, Interactive Tutorials on common procedures and conditions, and Doctor and Dentist Directories.

What you will find: includes A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia, Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary, Merck Manuals, and the PDR Family Guide to Over-the-Counter Drugs.

What you will find: NCA is a nonprofit organization that conducts certification of medical laboratory personnel. Their website provides an application for examination, an examination schedule, and information on recertification and reinstatement. It also has a career section.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

What you will find: provides health standards, regulations, and inspections to prevent workplace injuries, illnesses and deaths. A special section of this website is devoted to safety and health information relevant to laboratories, such as evaluating hazards in the laboratory and producing a chemical hygiene plan: http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/laboratories/index.html.

Periodic Table

What you will find: provides an interactive periodic table. Shockwave plug-in required.

Screening and Testing to Detect Cancer

What you will find:  provides information on laboratory tests that can aid in detecting many types of cancer.

Student Success Center (SSC), Medical Campus, Miami Dade College

What you will find:  provides a listing of computer based tutoring programs accessible from computers in the Medical Campus Library and in SSC. SSC also offers online and face-to-face tutoring services. For more information on any of these services or programs, contact SSC at (305) 237-4499.

MDC Department of Medical Laboratory Technology
Miami Dade College, Medical Center Campus

Department of Medical Laboratory Technology

950 NW 20th Street
Miami, FL 33127
(305) 237- 4141

The MDC Department of Medical Laboratory Technology offers an Associate of Science degree program. The program requires a total of 76 credits and can be taken over a five-semester full-time schedule or an eight-semester part-time schedule.