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California's biotech and medical device industries are selling more products and employing more people despite the recession,. Biomedical companies and hospitals need licensed clinical laboratory scientists to carry out diagnostic tests and other lab tasks to support medical treatment and research. If the state quadrupled its output of such workers, it wouldn't meet the need in hospitals alone. And more such workers are being sought by companies that are steadily developing an array of gene-based tests to match each patient with the best treatment, part of a biotech approach called "personalized medicine." (SFGate 1/13/10)

•8% of veterinary pathology positions are unfilled.
•Confirmed a critical shortage of veterinary anatomic and clinical pathologists
•550 Veterinary Pathologists
•110 Veterinary Clinical Pathologists

According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the 2000 American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Board of Registry's Wage and Vacancy Survey, vacancy rates for 5 of the 10 essential laboratory staff positions are at a 12-year high. The ASCP survey identified a 7 to 20% vacancy rate for laboratory positions that hospitals and clinical laboratories could not fill due to the lack of qualified candidates.

In addition, the BLS data indicate that the U.S. graduates fewer than half the number of clinical laboratory personnel needed to staff the country's clinical laboratories. It is estimated that U.S. laboratories will need approximately 12,400 professionals annually, between 2002 and 2010. The average number of clinical laboratory personnel expected to enter the job market is approximately 4,200 people per year.

BLS projects that by the year 2012, we will need 69,000 more clinical laboratory scientists/medical technologists and 68,000 more clinical/medical laboratory technicians than we had in 2002.