As a Medical Laboratory Assistant, you will need to master following:

• apply safety procedures in laboratory
• archive healthcare users' records
• automated analysers in the medical laboratory
• blood type classification
• check the received biological samples
• examine cell specimens microscopically
• identify patients' medical records
• label blood samples
• microbiology-bacteriology
• techniques of blood-sampling
• transport blood samples
• work safely with chemicals

More generally, a medical laboratory assistant is also versed in:

• calibrate laboratory equipment
• communicate in healthcare
• laboratory techniques
• maintain laboratory equipment
• maintain medical laboratory equipment
• mix chemicals
• operate scientific measuring equipment
• perform laboratory tests
• perform sample testing
• prepare samples for testing
• record test data
• send biological samples to laboratory
• test chemical samples
• use chemical analysis equipment
• wear appropriate protective gear

It also helps to know the following:

• analyse blood samples
• analyse cell cultures
• assist in the production of laboratory documentation
• biological chemistry
• blood collection on babies
• blood donation
• carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
• collect biological samples from patients
• data protection
• fine-needle aspiration
• histopathology
• interpret hematological test results
• maintain healthcare user data confidentiality
• monitor stock level
• paediatric phlebotomy procedures
• sterilise medical equipment
• blood transfusion
• clinical biochemistry
• clinical cytology
• dispose medical waste
• immunology
• interpret medical results
• microscopic techniques
• order supplies
• perform bone marrow transplant
• virology
• work with chemicals