This certificate program will prepare students to be the “face of the lab” in both public and private healthcare facilities, interacting with technologists, physicians, and the public. The duties of a Medical Laboratory Assistant are varied students might find themselves acquiring patient specimens by methods such as phlebotomy (taking blood) or performing electrocardiograms (ECGs) or assisting medical laboratory technologists in chemistry, cytology, hematology, histopathology or microbiology departments.