“Unsung heroes.” That’s what Erin Mandel-Shorserl calls medical laboratory professionals, who are in short supply in Ontario.
In talking with Canadian HR Reporter, the associate dean for Biomedical Sciences and Health Regulation at Humber College in Toronto says somewhere in the range of 2,000 new positions will be opening between 2023 and 2027 in the medical lab professional space in the province.
“They are what I would call the unsung heroes of helping a patient get from coming into a physician’s office to receiving diagnosis and treatment,” she says.
