Alicia Youngstrand has been a student in the histotechnology certificate program in the College of Health Professions at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences since January.
Her bachelor’s degree is in fish, wildlife, and conservation biology, but she found jobs in the field were scarce and did not pay well. She worked briefly as a data analyst for an environmental company, until she decided to follow the career path of a cousin who works in histotechnology at a Veteran’s Administration facility in Florida.
Though Youngstrand has been a student in the 12-month program histotechnology certificate program only a few months, she says the training she is receiving is “next level.”
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