Awards for Students & Professionals

Professional Awards

Professional Recognition Award

(In Memory of All Deceased NLCMLS Members)

The NLCMLS feels it is important to promote and recognize past and present technologists who are/were dedicated to their profession and go above and beyond what is normally required to care for their patients. This award is presented to a former or current member in good standing whose professional conduct and dedication have contributed greatly to the diagnosis and treatment of disease. It can be one incident or several incidents that show that this technologist has made a difference in their workplace.

→ Professional Recognition Award Nomination Guidelines

NLCMLS Award of Merit

The NLCMLS is proud to offer the Award of Merit, provincially recognizing a NLCMLS member who has enhanced the profession of medical laboratory technology in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

→ Award of Merit Nomination Guidelines

NLCMLS Honorary Membership Award

Honorary Membership is awarded in recognition of a members outstanding contribution to the NLCMLS. The recipient, who must be a certified member (practicing, non-practicing, or retired) receives all the privileges and services of membership without payment of membership fees.

→ Honorary Membership Nomination Guidelines

Student Awards

THE JACK SIDEL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

This memorial scholarship, established by the NLCMLS, consists of $250 and a certificate. It is presented to the Medical Laboratory Sciences student who has attained the highest-grade point average at the end of their second year.

THE DON MARSHALL MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP

This memorial scholarship, established by the NLCMLS, consists of $250 and a certificate. It is presented to the Medical Laboratory Sciences student with the highest mark in Interdisciplinary Studies ML2610.

Abbott David Ball Memorial Scholarship

Sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, Diagnostics Division

David Ball was an inspiration to every laboratory technologist in Canada. He succumbed to renal disease in July 2001. David served his entire laboratory career working for the Western Health Care Board and resided in Deer Lake, NL. Outside of his career, David was an active community leader and volunteer with the Deer Lake Town Council, Scouts Canada, and the Gideons.

The NLCMLS in conjunction with Abbott Laboratories, Diagnostics Division offers a provincial recognition in the form of a $1000.00 cash award and certificate. Students who have completed Semester 6 of their second year of studies in the Medical Laboratory Sciences Program at CNA will be eligible; the award will be presented when the student is in their third year of the program.

The award is based on academic achievement (recent transcript), an outline of community services, and a written essay explaining the importance for them choosing medical laboratory.

Roche Student Scholarship

The scholarship will be a cash reward of $250.00 sponsored by Roche Diagnostics. Students who have completed Semester 6 of their second year of studies in the Medical Laboratory Sciences Program at CNA will be eligible; the award will be presented during the student’s third year of the program.

The award is presented to the student who, in the opinion of the Medical Laboratory Sciences faculty, consistently displays the qualities and attributes of an exemplary student technologist.

These qualities include the following:

Practical ability
Safe work practice
Cooperation
Dependability
Responsibility
Ability to adapt to changing situations
Effective communication
Interpersonal skills