Also called: Tissue Recovery Specialist, Donor Recovery Technician
Recovers donated tissues like bone, skin, and corneas from deceased donors.
Travels on call (often at night) to hospitals or medical examiner offices, recovers tissues in a sterile procedure, and packs them for the tissue bank. One donor can help 75+ people.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Associate's degree (2-year), about 2 years after high school. Associate degree or surgical tech background; on-the-job training.
Ways in: 2-year college, On-the-job training, Certification. Training cost: Under $15k.
Majors to look at: Surgical Technology, Biology.
Growing about average. Steady.
Low risk for 10 years. Nothing here is easy to automate: on-call travel and sterile recovery from donors is skilled human handwork.
Classes: Anatomy and physiology, Biology, Health science CTE.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-4021.
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