• Work in hospital, pharmacy or research laboratories.
• Prepare tissue samples that are used by physicians to determine if a patient has a disease, dysfunction or malignancy.
• Histologists and histology technicians both prepare tissue samples, but histologists perform more complex and advanced procedures and also perform management functions.

Education/Training

• High school college prep courses in Math, science, English 
• Histologic technicians must earn an associate’s degree in the field and complete a one-year internship or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab, and pass a national examination.
• Histologists must earn a bachelor’s degree that includes one-year internship or complete a long-term training program in a histopathology lab, and pass a national examination.

Salary

• Histologic technicians:  $22,000 -$35,000

• Histologists: $30,000 - $50,000

More Information

• National Society for Histotechnology
  4201 Northview Drive. Suite 502
  Bowie, MD 20716-2604
  301-262-6221
  E-mail: histo@nsh.org