-: If you wanna be a clinical laboratory technologist
and start in that field and work in the laboratories,
I would recommend getting
the clinical laboratory science degree
that's the CLS degree.
I know that the University of Minnesota
has a program for that degree.
Mayo Clinic has a lot of very specialized laboratories
where the requirements from our accrediting body
require CLS degrees, so there are certain labs
where the student has to have a CLS degree.
That being said, Mayo Clinic also does hire people
with human biological science degrees,
so biology, biochemistry, chemistry,
microbiology, bacteriology.
Those types of degrees are very valued
at Mayo Clinic as well.
So it depends on whether the student
wants to really devote themselves
to a clinical laboratory science
or if they want to leave their options open.
I think research experience is very impactful.
Any sort of laboratory internship
that they can find is also very impactful
because employers are gonna be looking at them
wondering, "Is this person here for just that year
before they go to med school,
or are they here because they're really interested
in this type of work?"