Medical Laboratory Technician

Science

Welcome to the Erickson Library's Medical Laboratory Technician subject guide. You'll find tabs at the top that will lead you to additional information with print and online resources. 

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• Credo Reference
  Search over 3 million full text entries in 1,200 electronic reference books! Watch How to Run a Basic Search on Credo.

• Immunology & serology in laboratory medicine
  MAIN ; R853.M3 B83 2014
• Linné & Ringsrud's clinical laboratory science : concepts, procedures, and clinical applications
  COURSE RESERVES ; Circ Desk/MedLab Tech
• Clinical Chemistry Fundamentals and Laboratory Techniques
  COURSE RESERVES ; Circ Desk/MedLab Tech
• Clinical hematology : theory & procedures
  MAIN ; RB145 .T79 2018
• Contemporary Clinical Immunology and Serology
  COURSE RESERVES ; Circ Desk/MedLab Tech
• Mathematics for the clinical laboratory
  MAIN ; RB38.3 .D68 2016

• Academic Search Premier
  EBSCO's largest database includes full text of thousands of scholarly publications across all academic disciplines. Watch the Ebscohost Tutorial. 
• Alt HealthWatch
  This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness. It has full text articles for more than 180 international, and often peer-reviewed journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book excerpts.
• CINAHL Complete
  CINAHL Complete is the world's most comprehensive nursing & allied health research database, providing full text for nearly 1,400 journals indexed in CINAHL. With full-text coverage dating back to 1937, it is the definitive research tool for all areas of nursing and allied health literature.
• Consumer Health Complete
  Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. CHC provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. This full text database covers topics such as aging, cancer, diabetes, drugs & alcohol, fitness, nutrition & dietetics, children's health, men & women's health, etc.
• General Science Collection
  General Science Collection with over 200 journals, providing researchers with the information needed to stay current on the latest scientific developments.
• Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
  This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the AHFS Consumer Medication Information which includes drug information in lay language for consumers.
• PubMed
  PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's free search service which indexes over 5,000 medical, dental, nursing and allied health journals.
• Science Reference Center
  Science Reference Center is a comprehensive research database that provides easy access to a multitude of full text science-oriented content. This database contains full text for  science encyclopedias, reference books, periodicals, images, etc. Topics covered include: biology, chemistry, earth & space science, environmental science, health & medicine, history of science, life science, physics, science & society, science as inquiry, scientists, technology and wildlife.

1. Useful keywords: laboratory, pathology, science occupations, health technology
2. Break down your topic into smaller concepts and identify synonyms.
3. Use and to combine keywords, i.e. "laboratory and technologist"
4. Use or to expand your results, i.e. "clinical or forensic"
5. Use "quotation marks" to search keywords as a phrase, i.e. "medical laboratory technologist"
6. Use an asterisk* to search multiple endings, i.e. tech* will search technology, technologist, technologies, technician, etc.