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Career and technical education programs are facing escalating pressure to make changes to meet the demands of a number of initiatives as well as the requirements of the Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006. In addition to an increased focus on challenging academic and technical standards, stronger links between secondary and postsecondary programs, and accountability, programs are required to prepare students for high skill, wage, or demand occupations and for both further education and employment. In an effort to meet these requirements, a two-year career and technical program aligned with the States' Career Clusters Health Science Cluster was developed. Data used to develop the program were collected from a variety of sources including: interviews with healthcare professionals; occupational employment projections; national standards; requirements of institutions of higher learning as well as community and junior colleges; and state and national certification requirements.