Celebrating National Medical Laboratory Week

This week is National Medical Laboratory Week!

Since 1985, the Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science (CSMLS) has sponsored a special week in April to promote awareness and understanding of the role of medical laboratory professionals in the health care system.  This year's national awareness campaign focuses on educating the public about the important work done by medical laboratory professionals.

Did you know...

• Over 1.2 million lab tests are performed everyday? (Source: Canada Health Infoway)
• 500 cases of cancer are diagnosed every day in the lab? (Source: Canadian Cancer Society)
• More than 20 patients are diagnosed with diabetes every hour? (Source: Statistics Canada)

Medical laboratory professionals are critical in providing accurate and timely results that are vital to medical decisions made by your health care providers.

Are you interested in finding out more about this profession?  To learn more about our program and the industry, we invite you to join us for our Medical Laboratory Assistant Open House taking place this Thursday, April 23rd at our Winnipeg campus.  We will have currently enrolled students and staff available to answer your questions.

Date: Thursday, April 23rd, 2015
Time: 11:00 am to 1:00 pm
Location: 265 Notre Dame Ave., Winnipeg
RSVP:  Please call 204.943.5661 ext 328 or email rwarkentin@robertsoncollege.com.

We hope to see you there!