Regulations and Licensures – New York
Click here to review regulations for this state.
Excerpt from the state regulations:
A “Cytotechnologist” is a clinical laboratory practitioner who, pursuant to established and approved protocols of the Department of Health, performs cytological procedures and examinations and any other such tests including maintaining equipment and records and performing quality assurance activities related to examination performance, and which require the exercise of independent judgment and responsibility, as determined by the Education Department.
Whether or not it is done in cytology depends not on the CT but on the director. The DOH requires that the director have a certificate of qualification from the DOH in the area of testing (virology). After that, the individuals doing the testing must be competent to perform the functions necessary. They would need a license as clinical lab technologist or technician or cytotechnologist.
Excerpt from the state regulations:
17. What are restricted Clinical Laboratory Licenses?
The Department may issue a restricted license under which a person may receive a certificate to perform certain examinations and procedures that are within the definition of clinical laboratory technology, and the person may perform examinations and procedures only in the areas that are specifically listed in his or her certificate. These areas are histocompatibility, cytogenetics, stem cell process, flow cytometry/cellular immunology, and molecular diagnosis to the extent that this molecular diagnosis is included in genetic testing-molecular and molecular oncology.
In addition, restricted licensees who are employed at National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers or eligible teaching hospitals may receive a certificate that also includes the practice of other areas of molecular diagnosis, but they may practice these additional areas only at such centers or teaching hospitals, or at other sites as designated by the Commissioner.”