研究室からのメッセージです　Laboratory of Histopathology and Cytopathology Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences

Greetings

Hello everyone. My name is Masanao Saio. Thank you for visiting this website.

If you are looking at this page, you are probably aiming to become a Medical technologist or wondering what kind of job it is to be a Medical technologist or what kind of job is a cytotechnologist.

Clinical laboratory technicians are involved in the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of patients' progress by examining specimens taken during tests performed in hospitals. If you belong to a pathology department, a Medical technologist can collaborate with a doctor in the department (often called a pathologist) and use a microscope to observe patient organ and body fluid specimens taken by doctors in other departments. Process it as follows. Then, a clinical laboratory technician with a cytotechnical qualification will screen the cell image, and a pathologist will make a pathological diagnosis and return the results to the doctor in the requesting department. The pathology department is in charge of examining the organs of the whole body, and there is a lot of observation using microscopes, so I think it is suitable for people who want to know about every organ and people who like looking at microscopes. Masu.

But let's not think too hard about it. It is easier to give birth than to worry. Please enroll in Gunma University and study with us.

There are many ways to learn with us.

   ・Belong to a laboratory for graduation research as an undergraduate student

   ・Belong to a laboratory as a student in the cytotechnologist training course (only 3 national universities have one)

   ・Belong to a research lab in the first half of graduate school (master's program)

   ・Belong to a research laboratory in the latter half of graduate school (doctoral course)

           Etc.

As mentioned above, there are many ways to learn, but none are good or bad.

The laboratory that I aim to be is a laboratory that allows people to grow by adapting to each person's individuality and the different ways in which each person progresses. The laboratory comprises seven academic years, starting with the third year of the cytotechnologist training course and ending with the third year of the doctoral course. It's really gratifying to watch students who don't know what's ahead and what's behind them gradually grow. All we can do is support your academic growth, but we hope you will have fun learning. It takes a great deal of effort to aim to obtain both the national examination for Medical technologists and cytotechnologist qualifications, to pursue both research and cytotechnologist qualifications, and to work energetically on research. That's why I hope to guide you so you can continue having that feeling of fun.

As the coronavirus pandemic has calmed down a little, we have resumed participation in the Japan-Korea Joint Cytology Conference this year. Our laboratory has the feeling that ``we conduct research that is highly regarded among health science graduate schools nationwide, not only for cytodiagnosis education but also for research.'' Therefore, all the members of our laboratory do their best in research and cytology. I am working on studying medical diagnosis. If you look at the accomplishments of papers and conference presentations, you can get a glimpse of the hard work of our laboratory members who work hard to balance job hunting, studying cytodiagnosis, and research in various ways, so we have included Bibliography. I would appreciate it if you could take a look.

In addition, as students take these studies and activities seriously, I can see first-hand how students' attitudes toward employment change. In other words, I feel that learning in the laboratory also makes me aware of the future. For this reason, in my seven years as a professor since I came here, what I am most concerned about for both undergraduate and graduate students is providing solid support to finding employment. Specifically, how much of what you learn in a pathology cytology laboratory will be useful for your job hunting, how much will obtaining a cytotechnologist qualification or graduating from a cytotechnologist training course be useful for your job hunting, and how much will learning at a pathology cytology laboratory be useful for your job hunting? I always remember how useful my experience will be in job hunting, and I will do my best to support students in their job hunting to get the job they want. doing.

August 2023

Laboratory of Histopathology and Cytopathology, Department of Laboratory Sciences, Gunma University Graduate School of Health Sciences

Professor Masanao Saio

P.S.: The mountain photo used on the top page of this website and at the top of each page is the view of Mt. Akagi from the laboratory. The sight of Mt. Akagi as seen from my laboratory always gives me energy and courage. When you visit Gunma University's Showa Campus for open campus events, we hope you will see the majestic view of Mt. Akagi from the university.