Jobs / Healthcare / 31-9099.02
Endoscopy Technicians
Maintain a sterile field to provide support for physicians and nurses during endoscopy procedures. Prepare and maintain instruments and equipment. May obtain specimens.
- US jobs
- 109,740 (SOC 31-9099 group, "Healthcare Support Workers, All Other")
- Median wage
- $48,430 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of endoscopy technicians?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Healthcare:
- Task levelPartialOne benchmark, from early 2025. On Stanford's MedAgentBench, where agents do clinical tasks in a simulated electronic health record, the best recorded model completes 69.7% of tasks (Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2). It has no maintained leaderboard, so newer models are not measured. No benchmark in our collection tests work with patients.
- Project levelPartialOnly adjacent evidence. GDPval includes nurses among its 44 occupations. OpenAI reports that GPT-5.5's deliverables won or tied against professionals' work in 84.9% of comparisons across all occupations. No benchmark in our collection tests clinical work over days, such as managing a patient's care.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in healthcare, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Clean, disinfect, or calibrate scopes or other endoscopic instruments according to manufacturer recommendations and facility standards.
- Collect specimens from patients, using standard medical procedures.
- Perform safety checks to verify proper equipment functioning.
- Maintain or repair endoscopic equipment.
- Assist physicians or registered nurses in the conduct of endoscopic procedures.
- Place devices, such as blood pressure cuffs, pulse oximeter sensors, nasal cannulas, surgical cautery pads, and cardiac monitoring electrodes, on patients to monitor vital signs.
- Prepare suites or rooms according to endoscopic procedure requirements.
- Maintain inventories of endoscopic equipment and supplies.
- Attend in-service training to validate or refresh basic professional skills.
- Conduct in-service training sessions to disseminate information regarding equipment or instruments.
- Position or transport patients in accordance with instructions from medical personnel.
- Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in endoscopy.
Other job titles for this occupation (12)
Certified Endo Tech (Certified Endoscopy Technician) · Certified Endoscopic Reprocessor (CER) · Certified Flexible Endoscope Reprocessor (CFER) · Certified Flexible Endoscopy Reprocessor (CFER) · Endoscope Technician (Endoscope Tech) · Endoscopy Specialty Technician (Endoscopy Specialty Tech) · Endoscopy Technician (Endoscopy Tech) · GI Tech (Gastrointestinal Technician) · Procedural Assistant (Procedural Asst) · Scope Tech (Scope Technician) · Endoscopic Technician (Endo Technician) · Gastroenterology Technician (Gastroenterology Tech)