Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Primary groupings

• 10 - Health and related fields
• 51. - Health professions and related programs
• 51.09 - Allied health diagnostic, intervention and treatment professions

51.0909 - Surgical technology/technologist

This instructional program class comprises any program that prepares individuals, under the supervision of physicians and surgical nurses, to maintain, monitor, and enforce the sterile field and adherence to aseptic technique by pre-operative, surgical team, and postoperative personnel. These programs include courses in instrument and equipment sterilization and handling; surgical supplies management; wound exposure and closure; surgical computer and robot operation and monitoring; maintenance of hemostasis; and patient and team scrubbing.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • operating room technician
  • operating room technologist
  • surgical technician
  • surgical technologist
  • surgical technology

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • medical assistant(51.0801)
  • sterile supply technician(51.1012)
  • surgical nursing(51.3812)