NOC 2021 · 32122 · TEER 2
Medical sonographers
Unit group 32122 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Medical sonographers operate ultrasound equipment to produce and record images of various parts of the body to aid physicians in monitoring pregnancies and in diagnosing cardiac, ophthalmic, vascular and other medical disorders. They are employed in clinics and hospitals. Medical sonographers who are supervisors or instructors are included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- adult echocardiographer
- cardiac sonographer
- cardiac ultrasound technician
- cardiac ultrasound technologist
- chief diagnostic medical sonographer
- diagnostic cardiac sonographer
- diagnostic echography technician
- diagnostic medical sonographer
- diagnostic medical sonography instructor
- diagnostic ultrasonography technician
- diagnostic ultrasound supervisor
- diagnostic ultrasound technician
- diagnostic ultrasound technologist - medical
- echocardiographer
- echocardiography technician
- echocardiography technologist
- echocardiography technologist sonographer
- echography technician
- echography technologist
- medical imaging technologist - ultrasound
- medical sonographer
- medical sonographers supervisor
- pediatric echocardiographer
- registered diagnostic cardiac sonographer
- registered diagnostic medical sonographer (RDMS)
- registered ultrasound technologist
- sonographer - medical
- sonography technologist
- student medical sonographer
- student sonographer - medical
- ultrasonographer - medical
- ultrasonography technician
- ultrasonography technologist
- ultrasound supervisor
- ultrasound technician
- ultrasound technologist
- vascular sonographer
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.