I have a unique situation.
I have a BS in Biotechnology and after I graduated in NY, a hospital hired me and was so desparate to get licensed employees that they paid for me to go back to school and get my AAS in Medical Laboratory Technology. I was grandfathered in and got my CLS license for NYS but they still paid for me to continue my education. I graduated and worked in that lab for 3 years, but it was very large so I only worked in Chem & Heme. I did a 6 month rotation to complete my degree.
Moved to Texas and got my MLT(ASCP). Worked in a small lab for 2 years as a generalist (but we did not perform antibody IDs so could not take MT for ASCP.)
Now I have moved to California and feel utterly flabbergasted by the requirements to get either license. I did not have to take any physics for either degree that I hold. I don't even know where to begin and have found the folks at CDPH to be disinterested and not willing to help.
Requirements don't say whether the experience has specific testing requirements (ie like ASCP, must do antibody IDs to have BB experience count..)
It also says you need light & electricity for physics, which typically isn't taught until Physics II.
I love being an MT but really, California?!?
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