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.
$48,430 a year (for the broader BLS group this job sits in).
of the working time. Estimate.
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- 93%
Measured, from Anthropic's usage data (2025). Counts help on part of a task.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 4.4 h long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 3%. Today's estimate: 5%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
The tasks
Sorted by . 12 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assist physicians or registered nurses in the conduct of endoscopic procedures.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 28% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Clean, disinfect, or calibrate scopes or other endoscopic instruments according to manufacturer recommendations and facility standards.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 20% | 38 min21 min to 1.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Prepare suites or rooms according to endoscopic procedure requirements.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 10% | 21 min13 min to 33 min | Stays with people | |
| Maintain or repair endoscopic equipment.Done daily by most who do it. | 10% | 50 min17 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Perform safety checks to verify proper equipment functioning.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min4 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Read current literature, talk with colleagues, or participate in professional organizations or conferences to keep abreast of developments in endoscopy.Done more than yearly by most who do it. AI observed on this task. | 6% | 1.7 h25 min to 3.3 h | 65%Half by now | |
| Position or transport patients in accordance with instructions from medical personnel.Done hourly or more by most who do it. | 6% | 13 min8 min to 25 min | Stays with people | |
| Maintain inventories of endoscopic equipment and supplies.Done daily by most who do it. | 4% | 33 min17 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Collect specimens from patients, using standard medical procedures.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 3% | 8 min4 min to 17 min | Stays with people | |
| 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.Done several times a day by most who do it. | 3% | 8 min4 min to 13 min | Stays with people | |
| Attend in-service training to validate or refresh basic professional skills.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Conduct in-service training sessions to disseminate information regarding equipment or instruments.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 1.0% | 1.7 h38 min to 4.2 h | 72%Half by now |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
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Where this job works
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