My major is Public Health Microbiology, a sub-major of the lab tech. There does not appear to be any specific guidelines for lab tech, so I looked for Public Health guidelines since that is what I plan to work in. I found what appeared to be almost specific guidelines for a Public Health provider or educator at the Heath and Human Services website of the federal government (http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/assets/pdf/checked/finalreport.pdf). These guidelines are very similar to the CLAS guidelines-from my reading it appears that the CLAS guidelines are another version of the full ones I found.
The main difference between the two sets of guidelines appears to be that the CLAS guidelines have broken down some information into two guidelines rather than just one. Other than that these guidelines are the same. This makes perfect sense-the HHS departments is one of the primary sources for public health information and policy in the United States. At this point I do not have any further specifications for my chosen field other than these guidelines.
