tecnólogo médico
Code 1908.10
This role has no official English translation yet; it is shown in Spanish.
The medical technologist (tecnóloga médica o TM) runs clinical lab analyses: sample handling/processing and reporting per protocol. Use this Job Dictionary profile to high-demand Chilean health role in clinics and labs.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- Monitoreo y evaluación continua de los resultados de las decisiones
- human physiology
- health records management
- medical contrast agents
- medical oncology
- radiation protection
- evidence-based radiography practice
- healthcare data systems
- medical terminology
Skills and competences
- Actualizar constantemente las decisiones clínicas con nuevas evidencias
- Evaluar la calidad de las evidencias científicas
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- prepare for diagnostic imaging procedures
- administer contrast media
- administer ICT system
- apply radiological health sciences
- apply company policies
- archive healthcare users' records
- calculate exposure to radiation
- communicate in healthcare
- contribute to continuity of health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- determine patient's exposure factors
- determine medical images' diagnostic suitability
- empathise with the healthcare user
- apply radiation protection procedures
- apply medical imaging techniques
- evaluate delivery of radiation treatment
- assess radiation response
- provide information
- ensure compliance with radiation protection regulations
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage data, information and digital content
- manage a multidisciplinary team involved in patient care
- manage healthcare users' data
- manage radiology information system
- report on radiological examinations
- interact through digital technologies
- interpret medical images
- interpret requests for imaging examinations
- interpretar radiografías
- maintain ICT system
- maintain imaging equipment
- operate medical imaging equipment
- post-process medical images
- prepare patients for imaging procedures
- provide care for a particular patient group
- provide healthcare services to patients in general medical practice
- protect health and well-being while using digital technologies
- perform ultrasound
- follow clinical guidelines
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- perform diagnostic imaging procedures
- use electronic health records management system
Transversal competences
- determine imaging techniques to be performed
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- attend to ICT systems quality
- synthesise information
- health care occupation-specific ethics
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What to assess for this role
Assess analytical rigour, biosafety and accuracy under volume.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a medical technologist do?
- Processes samples, runs lab equipment and validates results for the clinician.
- Same as a nurse?
- No. The TM focuses on lab/diagnostics; nursing on patient care.
- What to measure when hiring?
- Experience in lab areas (haematology, biochemistry, etc.) and shifts.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences