Perspectives

On-demand continuing medical education is growing in popularity among medical professionals as they need a required number of hours to maintain their professional licensures. Janet Bergquist, Education Specialist at Mayo Medical Laboratories, discusses the benefits of on-demand education.

Justin Kreuter, M.D., reflects on the "ignorance" of laboratory medicine among clinical colleagues.

Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and operational needs. This post focuses on operational needs.

Alex Harker, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) class of 2017, discusses his MLS clinical rotation in the Hematology Laboratory.

Andy Cousin, FACHE, Director of Product Management and Marketing for Mayo Medical Laboratories, is attending this year's ACHE Congress on Health Care Leadership conference in Chicago. He will be sharing his thoughts and photos from the conference. Follow along his live blog.

Kate McKeown, a student in Mayo Clinic’s Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) class of 2017, spotlights her experience in Mayo Clinic's Central Clinical Laboratory during MLS clinical rotations.

We have all been in the position of starting something new: a new class, new hobby, or a new job. Imagine yourself arriving for a new endeavor, entering a vacant room with a set of instructions on the chalkboard to complete some paperwork, signing some forms, and then leaving them in a bin when finished with no additional direction on where to go or what to do next . . . . How would that make you feel? Jeffry Harden, Program Manager in Mayo's Staff Development for Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, discusses best practices for orientation and onboarding.

Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and operational needs. This post focuses on indirect effort.

Mike Baisch, Systems Engineer at Mayo Clinic, discusses the mechanics of performing a staffing-to-workload analysis in the testing laboratories. There are three primary areas of focus with staffing needs: direct effort, indirect effort, and operational needs. This post focuses on direct effort.