{"id":167078,"date":"2023-07-07T12:24:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/training-the-next-generation-of-histotechnologists"},"modified":"2023-07-07T12:24:14","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T17:24:14","slug":"training-the-next-generation-of-histotechnologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/training-the-next-generation-of-histotechnologists","title":{"rendered":"Training the next generation of histotechnologists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/training-the-next-generation-of-histotechnologists.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming from a long line of educators all the way back to her great-grandmother, <a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.mdanderson.org\/profiles\/toysha_mayer.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toysha Mayer, D.H.Sc.<\/a>, swore she\u2019d choose a different career.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to teach, but after becoming a histotechnologist, I ended up working in teaching hospitals. It was a natural progression for me to work with new technicians, residents and fellows,\u201d says the assistant professor and associate program director for Histotechnology at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdanderson.org\/education-training\/degrees-programs\/school-of-health-professions.html\" target=\"_blank\">The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center School of Health Professions (SHP)<\/a>. Histotechnologists prepare patients\u2019 tissues so our pathologists can make precise diagnoses for diseases like cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming from a long line of educators all the way back to her great-grandmother, Toysha Mayer, D.H.Sc., swore she\u2019d choose a different career. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to teach, but after becoming a histotechnologist, I ended up working in teaching hospitals. It was a natural progression for me to work with new technicians, residents and fellows,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}