NOC 2021 · 32129 · TEER 2
Other medical technologists and technicians
Unit group 32129 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
What this group covers
Other medical technologists and technicians includes medical technologists and technicians, such as dietary technicians, ocularists, prosthetists, orthotists, prosthetic technicians and orthotic technicians. Dietary technicians are employed in health care and commercial food service establishments such as hospitals, extended care facilities, nursing homes, schools, cafeterias and fast food outlets. Ocularists are employed in custom ocular prosthetic laboratories, or they may be self-employed. Prosthetists, orthotists and prosthetic and orthotic technicians are employed in hospitals, clinics, prosthetics and orthotics laboratories, and prosthetic device manufacturing companies. Prosthetists and orthotists may also be self-employed. Apprentices are also included in this unit group.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- aeromedical instructor
- aeromedical technician
- aeromedicine technician
- apprentice ocularist
- artificial eye maker
- artificial limb assembler
- artificial limb finisher
- artificial limb maker
- aviation medicine technician
- brace maker
- certified orthotist (CO)
- certified pedorthist (C Ped)
- certified prosthetist
- certified prosthetist-orthotist (CPO)
- dialysis technician
- dialysis technologist
- dietary technician
- dietary technologist
- food and nutrition technician - dietetics
- hemodialysis technician
- hemodialysis technologist
- kidney dialysis technician
- kidney dialysis technologist
- ocular prosthetist
- ocularist
- ocularist apprentice
- ocularist technician
- orthopedic appliance assembler
- orthopedic mechanic
- orthotic technician
- orthotist
- orthotist-prosthetist
- pedorthist
- prosthetic aide
- prosthetic assistant
- prosthetic technician
- prosthetic-orthotic technician
- prosthetist
- prosthetist assistant
- prosthetist-orthotist
- registered orthotic technician (R.T.O.)
- registered prosthetic and orthotic technician (R.T.P.O.)
- registered prosthetic technician (R.T.P.)
- surgical appliance fitter
- surgical fitter
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.