Funding Awards Available for Medical Laboratory Students

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) September 21, 2009 -- Traverse City, MI – Scholarships totaling $10,000 will be awarded for a second year in a row to medical technology students by the American Proficiency Institute (API).

API President, Daniel C. Edson, announced, “We were so impressed with the caliber of students interested in the medical laboratory science field, that we were compelled to offer five additional scholarships this year. We hope these scholarships will not only attract visionary leaders to the profession, but will also help to alleviate the nationwide shortage of laboratorians.”

Scholarship applications are available at www.api-pt.com, through Medical Technology program directors in the United States, or through the API Facebook page. Junior- and senior-level medical laboratory science students are encouraged to apply. Interested students should complete the application and submit it to their program director for a statement of support and signature. Program directors must submit the completed applications to API by Friday, November 13, 2009.

API will award five scholarships worth $2,000 each. Names of the winners will be made public on December 15, 2009.

The American Proficiency Institute offers innovative solutions, technical excellence for the proficiency testing needs of hospital laboratories, physician offices, clinics, and point-of-care testing sites. API is one of the largest proficiency testing providers in the world serving over 15,000 laboratories. It changed the face of proficiency testing by being the first to provide liquid chemistry samples, complete blood count with automated differential, blood cell photographs, practitioner-performed microscopy, and proficiency testing for the food industry. Through its innovative processes, the American Proficiency Institute offers paperless proficiency testing, free continuing education credits, rapid turnaround time, large peer group assessments, management reports, and excellent customer service.

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