Where a clinical perfusion scientist can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a clinical perfusion scientist already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Clinical perfusion scientists operate heart-lung equipment during surgical operations to ensure breathing and blood circulation. They work as part of the surgical team, connect patients to the heart-lung machines in preparation for surgery, monitor their condition during surgery, report to the team on the patients' status and determine the necessary techniques according to their needs.
Also known as clinical perfusionist, clinical perfusion techinician, medical perfusionist, medical perfusion expert, clinical perfusion expert, medical perfusion scientist, medical perfusion techinician.
Technicians and associate professionals 42 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: doctors' surgery assistant, 32%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A clinical perfusion scientist needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- clinical perfusion health and welfare
- conceptualise healthcare user’s needs information skills
- operate breathing equipment working with machinery and specialised equipment
- operate heart-lung machines working with machinery and specialised equipment
- carry out invasive cardiovascular procedures assisting and caring
- perform transcranial magnetic stimulation information skills
- conduct routine blood testing information skills
- resuscitation health and welfare
- hygiene in a health care setting services
- medical terminology health and welfare
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a clinical perfusion scientist does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- respiratory therapy technician 72% covered · difficulty 34.7
- diagnostic radiographer 48% covered · difficulty 57.8
- nuclear medicine radiographer 48% covered · difficulty 57.8
- radiation therapist 42% covered · difficulty 63.1
- nurse assistant 41% covered · difficulty 64.3
- prosthetist-orthotist 38% covered · difficulty 66.2
- anaesthetic technician 37% covered · difficulty 67.1
- anatomical pathology technician 36% covered · difficulty 68.2
- phlebotomist 31% covered · difficulty 72.2
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Clinical perfusion scientist is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a clinical perfusion scientist’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.