Students are invited to learn more about a medical laboratory and career opportunities in the medical technology field next week during National Medical Laboratory Week, April 8 to 14.

NIU’s med tech faculty and members of NIU’s Med Tech Club scheduled brown bag lunch presentations April 9 to 12 in DuSable room 129 at 12:15 p.m.

Topics to be covered include careers in clinical laboratories, the significance of cholesterol/lipid testing scores, and what is in a routine urinalysis and lab evaluation of a sore throat.

Dianne Cearlock, assistant professor of the NIU School of Nursing, said the presentations should be interesting to everyone because everyone has given specimens tested in a medical laboratory.

Cearlock said the presentation is not just for med tech majors. The medical technology field will be highly employable for the next 10 to 15 years because there is a shortage in the field, she said.

The presentations will be held in the remodeled medical technology student laboratory in DuSable, which opened last fall, she said.

The laboratory has a variety of instruments that will be shown, including those used to test for blood diseases, Cearlock said.