This minor group comprises medical technologists and technicians, including medical laboratory technologists; medical radiation technologists; medical sonographers; cardiology technologists and electrophysiological diagnostic technologists; pharmacy technicians; and other medical technologists and technicians. They are employed by medical, radiological, and animal research laboratories; hospitals, clinics, extended and long-term care facilities, nursing homes, and public health and cancer treatment centres; respiratory home care, and pharmaceutical companies; retail and hospital pharmacies; pharmaceutical and prosthetic device manufacturers; custom ocular prosthetic, prosthetics, and orthotics laboratories; fast food outlets, cafeterias, schools, and health care and commercial food service establishments; animal hospitals, veterinary clinics, animal shelters, and zoos; colleges and universities, research facilities, and government, or they may be self-employed.