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• Professional ethics


  The principles that govern a person's behavior in the workplace or work environment
• Code of ethics


  Works on the principle "treating others the way we would like to be treated"
• Professionals shall "observe confidentiality"
• Codes of ethics


  Help direct decision-making in solving ethical problems, deciding on ethical dilemmas, or when placed in debatable situations
• Codes of conduct


  Provide the action to codes of ethics and serve to apply the codes of ethics to particular and relevant situations
• Codes of conduct provide a list of guidelines or conditions in implementing confidentiality
• Professional ethical principles


  • Honesty
  • Trustworthiness
  • Loyalty
  • Respect for others
  • Adherence to the law
  • Doing good
  • Avoiding harm to others
  • Accountability
• Benefits of professional codes of conduct

  • Build confidence in the profession's trustworthiness
  • Provide greater transparency and certainty about how client's affairs will be handled
  • Provide a supporting framework to the members of the profession, for resisting pressure to act inappropriately, and for making acceptable decisions in what may be "grey areas"
  • Provide a common understanding of acceptable practice which builds collegiality and allows for fairer disciplinary procedures within the profession
  • Will benefit others dealing with the profession, as the profession will be seen as more reliable and easier to deal with
• General Principle of professional conduct

  Professionals are required to have an ethical commitment, a personal resolve to act ethically, and to have both ethical awareness and ethical competency
• Ethical awareness


  The ability to discern between right and wrong
• Ethical competency


  The ability to apply sound and moral reasoning
• Specific principles of professional conduct

  • Service to others
  • Integrity and objectivity
  • Professional competence
  • Solidarity and teamwork
  • Social and civic responsibility
  • Global competitiveness
  • Equality of all professions
• Service to others


  Professionals are committed to a life of service to others, protect life, property, and public welfare, and shall be prepared for heroic sacrifice and genuine selflessness in carrying out their professional duties even at the expense of personal gain
• Integrity and objectivity


  To maintain and broaden public confidence, professionals shall perform their responsibilities with the highest sense of integrity and imbued with nationalism and spiritual values
• Professional competence


  Professionals shall undertake only those professional services that they can reasonably deliver with professional competence
• Solidarity and teamwork


  Each profession shall nurture and support one organization for all its members, and through a deep spirit if solidarity, each member should put the broader interest of the profession above one's personal ambition and preference
• Social and civic responsibility

  Professionals shall serve their clients/employers and the public with professional concern and in a manner consistent with their responsibilities to society
• Global competitiveness


  Every professional shall remain open to more challenges of a more dynamic interconnected world
• Equality of all professions


  All professionals perform an equally important, yet distinct, service to society, and therefore, everyone shall treat one another with respect and fairness
• Code of ethics


  Value statements, behaves like the Constitution, provides guidance about values and choices, affects decision-making, enables one to make an independent judgement, wide-ranging and non-specific
• Code of conduct


  Applies the Code of Ethics to relevant situations, outlines specific behaviors that are required or prohibited, affects action, require little judgment since one either obeys or incurs a penalty, provides a clear set of expectations about which actions are required, acceptable, or prohibited
• Both codes of ethics and codes of conduct are used to encourage specific forms of acceptable and ethical behavior
• This code of ethics is promulgated to provide the medical technologist with proper ethical and professional standards in the practice of Medical Technology to ensure the safety and welfare of patients
• This Code sets forth the fundamental ethical principles and the professional responsibilities of the medical technologist towards patients, the healthcare system, the community, his/her colleagues, self, and the profession, allied professionals and the health products industry
• The medical technologist shall cherish and take pride in his/her calling and conduct himself/herself in accordance with this Code and the generally accepted principles of the International Code of Medical Technology Ethics
• RA6713 - Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees


  Purpose: To respect the rights of others at all times and to refrain from doing acts contrary to law, morals, or customs. Importance: Public officials and employees shall at all times be accountable to the people and shall discharge their duties with utmost responsibility, integrity, competence, and loyalty, act with patriotism and justice, lead modest lives, and uphold public interest over personal interest.
• RA5527 - The Philippine Medical Technology Act of 1969
• Practice of Medical Technology


  A person shall be deemed to be in the practice of medical technology who shall for a fee, salary or other compensation or reward paid or given directly or indirectly through another, renders any of the following professional services for the purpose of aiding the physician in the diagnosis, study and treatment of diseases and in the promotion of health in general: examination of tissues, secretions and excretions of the human body and body fluids by various procedures and techniques; blood banking procedures and techniques; parasitologic, mycologic and microbiological procedures and techniques; histopathologic and cytotechnology; clinical research involving patients or human beings requiring the use of and/or application of medical technology knowledge and procedures; preparations and standardization of reagents, standards, stains and others, provided such reagents, standards, stains and others are exclusively for the use of their laboratory; clinical laboratory quality control; collection and preservation of specimens
• Pathologist


  A duly registered physician who is specially trained in methods of laboratory medicine, or the gross and microscopic study and interpretation of tissues, secretion and excretions of the human body and its functions in order to diagnose disease, follow its course, determine the effectivity of treatment, ascertain cause of death and advance medicine by means of research
• Medical Technologist


  A person who engages in the work of medical technology under the supervision of a pathologist or licensed physician authorized by the Department of Health in places where there is no pathologist and who having passed the prescribed course (Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology/ Bachelor of Science in Hygiene) of training and examination is registered under the provision of this Act
• Medical Laboratory Technicians


  A person certified and registered with the Board as qualified to assist a medical technologist and/or qualified pathologist in the practice of medical technology as defined in this Act
• Accredited medical technology training laboratory


  A clinical laboratory, office, agency, clinic, hospital or sanitarium duly approved by the Department of Health or its authorized agency
• Recognized school of medical technology

  Any school, college, or university which offers a course in Medical Technology approved by the Department of Education in accordance with the requirements under this Act, upon recommendation of the council of medical technology education
• Council of medical technology education

  The council established under this Act, with the Director of Higher Education as Chairman, the Chairman of the Professional Regulation Commission as Vice-Chairman, and various other members
• The Council of medical technology education is responsible for functions such as recommending the minimum required curriculum, determining and prescribing the number of students to be allowed, approving medical technology schools, requiring annual reports, inspecting schools, certifying students for internship, formulating and recommending refresher courses, and promulgating necessary rules and regulations
• The medical technology course shall be at least four years, including a 12-month satisfactory internship in accredited laboratories, and shall include subjects such as English, General Parasitology, General Zoology, General Chemistry, Biochemistry, Microbiology, Physiology, Mathematics, General Pathology, Social Science, Qualitative Chemistry, Gross Anatomy, Clinical Parasitology, Spanish, College Physics, Quantitative Chemistry, Histology, Biostatistics, Clinical Laboratory, Hematology, Serology, Blood Banking, Clinical Microscopy, Applied Microbiology, Parasitology, Histopathologic Techniques, and Cytotechnology
• Medical Technology Board


  The Board of Examiners for Medical Technology established under this Act
• Qualifications of examiners for the Medical Technology Board

  • Filipino citizen
  • Good moral character
  • Qualified Pathologist, or a duly registered medical technologist of the Philippines with the degree of Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology/ Bachelor of Science in Hygiene/ Public Health
  • At least 10 years of practice in laboratory medicine or medical technology prior to appointment
  • Not a member of the faculty of any medical technology school for at least 2 years prior to appointment or having any pecuniary interest in such institution
• Each member of the Medical Technology Board shall receive a sum of 10 pesos for each applicant examined and 5 pesos for each applicant granted a certificate of registration without examination
• The Board is vested with authority and required to perform functions conformably with the Act, including registration, examination, and disciplinary actions