Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0

• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.10 - Clinical/medical laboratory science/research and allied professions

51.1008 - Histologic technician

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of histotechnologists and other clinical laboratory scientists, to prepare and process tissue samples and perform routine histologic procedures and tests. These programs include courses in fixation, dehydration, embedding, sectioning, decalcification, microincineration, mounting, routine and special steaming, laboratory mathematics, laboratory procedures and safety, instrumentation and microscopy, computer applications, preparation of museum specimens, and recording and administrative procedures.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • histologic technician

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • histologic technologist(51.1007)
  • histology(26.0401)