[Education and Training in Disaster Medicine for Clinical Laboratory Staff]

The clinical laboratory is essential to medicine in general. Clinical laboratory staff with a core of medical technologists are asked to take part in disaster medicine, and their education and training are urgently neces- sary to markedly contribute to disaster medicine. Clinical laboratory staff who participate in disaster medicine should have the following: 1) understanding of disaster medicine and the skills to implement it, 2)warm spirits of togetherness with disaster victims and enthusiasm to help them, 3) physical strength and self-control, 4) the ability to communicate and connect with other staff, 5) the ability to devise clinical laboratory systems according to the situation. It is desirable for associations of clinical laboratory and those of disaster medicine to work together to de- velop education programs and certification systems, and for education programs to be developed into medical technologist-training schools. [Review].