Health
Medical laboratory technician
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: low according to the ILO, high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +5.1% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Medical and pathology laboratory technicians (ISCO 3212). Medical and pathology laboratory technicians perform clinical tests on specimens of bodily fluids and tissues in order to obtain information about the health of a patient or cause of death.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
42 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- analyst in biomedical science
- anatomical pathology technical assistant
- anatomical pathology technician
- anatomical pathology technologist
- assistant clinical researcher
- assistant in anatomical pathology
- assistant in biomedical laboratory
- assistant in medical laboratory
- assistant pathology technician
- biomedical analyst
- biomedical doctor
- biomedical laboratory assistant
- biomedical laboratory research assistant
- biomedical researcher
- biomedical scientist
- blood bank technology specialist
- cervical cytology screener
- clinical embryologist
- clinical laboratory scientist
- clinical laboratory technologist
- clinical research assistant
- cytology practitioner
- cytology screener
- cytoscreener
- cytotechnologist
- expert cytology screener
- medical lab assistant
- medical laboratory assistant
- medical laboratory research assistant
- medical laboratory scientist
- medical scientist
- mortuary technician
- pathology laboratory services technician
- pathology laboratory technician
- pathology technician
- practitioner in biomedical science
- researcher in biomedical science
- scientist in biomedicine
- screener in cytology
- senior cytology screener
- specialist cytology screener
- technician in anatomical pathology
Training
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Gauges
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.