Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions at IIT

Recognizing that the American Medical Technologists seeks to encourage, establish and maintain the highest standards, traditions, and principles of our profession as a condition of Registration and maintaining membership in good standing in the American Medical Technologists, I pledge myself to practice Medical Technology in strict accord with the principles, standards, traditions and regulations of the American Medical Technologists and in accordance with the laws of the state in which I practice

While engaged in the Arts and Sciences which constitute the practice of Medical Technology, I shall practice with thorough self-restraint, always placing the welfare of the patients, entrusted to my care for tests or examinations, above all else, with full realization of my personal responsibility for the patients' best interests.

Realizing that it is incumbent upon me, as a Medical Technologist to continually keep abreast of the times, I pledge myself to strive constantly to increase my technical knowledge of Medical Technology and to participate in the interchange of knowledge with other competent practitioners of Medical Technology and/or other para medical Arts and Sciences that our joint knowledge shall benefit the profession and my practice.

I pledge accuracy and reliability in the performance of tests and to seek competent professional council when in doubt of my own judgment or competence in a particular test or examination.

As a further consideration for registration, I pledge myself to avoid dishonest, unethical or illegal compensation for such services as I shall render to the patients in my charge and I shall shun unwarranted professional publicity or unjust discrimination among the patients in my charge.

I pledge myself to protect the judgment of the attending physician in all cases in which I am directed to make laboratory tests or examinations, and to report the results of my findings free from all personal opinion to the attending physician only. I shall not make or offer a diagnosis or interpretation unless I be a duly licensed physician, except as the results of the report may of itself so indicate, or unless I am asked to by the attending physician.

I pledge myself to protect the identity and the integrity of all patients placed in my charge and to make only such reports public as shall be required by me by the laws of the state in which I practice or as the patient's physician shall direct.

As a final condition of Registration and Membership in the American Medical Technologists, I pledge my honor and my integrity to cooperate in the advancement and expansion, by every lawful means within my power, of the influence of the American Medical Technologists and to defend its principles.