Conduct research dealing with the understanding of human diseases and the improvement of human health. Engage in clinical investigation or other research, production, technical writing, or related activities.

Other names for Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists: Anatomist, Cancer Researcher, Chemotherapist, Clinical Analyst, Clinical Data Coordinator, Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Clinical Pharmacologist, Clinical Research Associate, Clinical Research Director, Clinical Research Scientist, Clinical Researcher, Cytologist, Endocrinologist, Genetic Scientist, Gerontologist, Good Laboratory Practice In Vitro Study Director (GLP In Vitro Study Director), Histologist, Histopathologist, Immunochemist, Investigator, Laboratory Director, Medical Affairs Director, Medical Health Researcher, Medical Physicist, Medical Research Scientist, Medical Scientist, Mental Health Researcher, Nanotechnologist, Neurophysiologist, Neuroscientist, Neurosurgery Research Director, Parasitologist, Pesticide Use Medical Coordinator, Pharmaceutical Botanist, Pharmacognosist, Pharmacologist, Physical Scientist, Physician, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Professor, Research Assistant, Research Associate, Research Grant Specialist, Research Scientist, Researcher, Scientist, Serologist, Toxicologist,

• Conduct research to develop methodologies, instrumentation and procedures for medical application, analyzing data and presenting findings.
• Plan and direct studies to investigate human or animal disease, preventive methods, and treatments for disease.
• Follow strict safety procedures when handling toxic materials to avoid contamination.
• Evaluate effects of drugs, gases, pesticides, parasites, and microorganisms at various levels.
• Teach principles of medicine and medical and laboratory procedures to physicians, residents, students, and technicians.
• Prepare and analyze organ, tissue and cell samples to identify toxicity, bacteria, or microorganisms, or to study cell structure.
• Standardize drug dosages, methods of immunization, and procedures for manufacture of drugs and medicinal compounds.
• Investigate cause, progress, life cycle, or mode of transmission of diseases or parasites.
• Confer with health department, industry personnel, physicians, and others to develop health safety standards and public health improvement programs.
• Study animal and human health and physiological processes.
• Consult with and advise physicians, educators, researchers, and others regarding medical applications of physics, biology, and chemistry.
• Use equipment such as atomic absorption spectrometers, electron microscopes, flow cytometers and chromatography systems.

• Chromatography tubing
• Spectrophotometers
• Steam autoclaves or sterilizers
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Deoxyribonucleic sequence analyzers
• Laboratory balances
• Beta counters
• Laboratory blenders or emulsifiers
• Blood gas analyzers
• Calorimeters
• Medical ultrasound bone densitometers
• Instrumentation for capillary electrophoresis
• Dry wall single chamber carbon dioxide incubators
• Ultrasonic disintegrators
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Chemistry analyzers
• Chromatography tubing
• Coagulation analyzers
• Spectrophotometers
• Colorimeters
• Medical computed tomography CT or CAT scanners or tubes
• Scanning light or spinning disk or laser scanning microscopes
• Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters
• Laboratory filtration hardware or accessories
• Cuvettes
• Mobile or transportable medical linear accelerators
• Complementary deoxyribonucleic acid cDNA synthesis kits
• Desktop computers
• Thin layer chromatography tanks
• Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters
• Conductivity meters
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Electron microscopes
• Electrophoresis system power supplies
• Laboratory flasks
• Laboratory evaporators
• Reactors or fermenters or digesters
• Laboratory funnels
• Microcentrifuges
• Spectrophotometers
• Photometers
• Laboratory flasks
• Manual or electronic hematology differential cell counters
• Spectrophotometers
• Fume hoods or cupboards
• Gamma counters
• Gas chromatographs
• Gel documentation systems
• Gel dryers
• Gel boxes
• Laboratory washing machines
• Spectrophotometers
• Laboratory heaters
• Dry baths or heating blocks
• Hematology analyzers
• High pressure liquid chromatograph chromatography
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Homogenizers
• Laboratory mechanical convection ovens
• Laboratory hotplates
• Forced air or mechanical convection general purpose incubators
• Ion chromatographs
• Laminar flow cabinets or stations
• Notebook computers
• Laser printers
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
• Magnetic stirrers
• Mainframe computers
• Mass spectrometers
• Laboratory graduated cylinders
• Medical magnetic resonance imaging MRI scanners
• Chemistry analyzers
• Robotic or automated liquid handling systems
• Petri plates or dishes
• Microplate readers
• Videoscopes
• Binocular light compound microscopes
• Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectrometers
• Pasteur or transfer pipettes
• Hematology or chemistry mixers
• Personal computers
• Petri plates or dishes
• pH meters
• Dropping pipettes
• Microplate washers
• Medical positron emission tomography PET units
• Laboratory funnels
• Spectrophotometers
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuges
• Vacuum or rotary evaporators
• Liquid scintillation counters
• Ion selective electrode ISE meters
• Shaking incubators
• Vacuum or centrifugal concentrators
• Laboratory sprayers
• Extracting equipment for laboratories
• Benchtop centrifuges
• Temperature cycling chambers or thermal cyclers
• Thinlayer chromatographs
• Microplates
• Ultracentrifuges
• Ultra cold or ultralow upright cabinets or freezers
• Medical ultrasound or doppler or pulse echo or echography units for general diagnostic use
• Ultraviolet crosslinkers
• Spectrophotometers
• Laboratory flasks
• Vortex mixers

Graphics or photo imaging software

Word processing software

Presentation software

Spreadsheet software

Data base user interface and query software

Development environment software

Analytical or scientific software