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

This series comprises instructional programs that prepare individuals to practice as licensed professionals and assistants in the health care professions and related clinical sciences and administrative and support services.

51.09 - Allied health diagnostic, intervention and treatment professions

This subseries comprises instructional program classes 51.0901 to 51.0999.

51.0914 - Gene/genetic therapy

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the application of genetics to the therapeutic treatment of diseases and inherited abnormalities through the targeted modification of gene expression, and prepares individuals to administer genetic therapies. These programs include courses in medical genetics, genome analysis, pharmacology of gene transfer, viral vectors, non-viral therapeutic techniques, genetic screening, targeted gene delivery, vector production, safety and quality assurance, clinical trials management, and bioethics.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • gene therapy
  • genetic therapy

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • cytogenetics(26.0899)
  • genetic counselling(51.1509)
  • genetics(26.0801)