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How exposed to AI is a Emergency Medicine Physician?

Of the 17 tasks O*NET lists for emergency medicine physicians, 3 could be done in half the time with a chat window today. 8 cannot be sped up at all. Here is which.

Exposure means published research judged an AI could halve the time a task takes, at the same quality. It does not mean the task stops needing a person. How to read this

Also called
Attending Emergency PhysicianAttending PhysicianEmergency MD (Emergency Medicine Doctor)Emergency Medicine Physician (EM Physician)Emergency PhysicianMD (Medical Doctor)Physician
Reachable today Needs software built first Cannot be sped up
17
tasks rated for this occupation
100%
hold a degree, from a survey of 29
36k
people do this job in the US
30 of 89
least protected in healthcare practitioners

Every task, and what AI can do with it

These are O*NET's task statements for this occupation, exactly as written, sorted into the three bands by the ratings behind this report. Nothing has been reworded.

Reachable with a chat window today

3
  • Communicate likely outcomes of medical diseases or traumatic conditions to patients or their representatives
  • Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care
  • Refer patients to specialists or other practitioners

Only with software built on top

6
  • Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions
  • Collect and record patient information, such as medical history or examination results, in electronic or handwritten medical records
  • Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge
  • Discuss patients' treatment plans with physicians and other medical professionals
  • Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment
  • Identify factors that may affect patient management, such as age, gender, barriers to communication, and underlying disease

Cannot be sped up

8
  • Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements
  • Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, assistants, specialists, residents, and other medical staff
  • Monitor patients' conditions, and reevaluate treatments, as necessary
  • Perform emergency resuscitations on patients
  • Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy
  • Select and prescribe medications to address patient needs
  • Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs
  • Stabilize patients in critical condition
What this does not say

This is not a prediction about your job

Nobody surveyed an employer. Tasks are counted equally, so a percentage here is a share of the list rather than a share of your week. And the ratings were made in 2023, which makes every figure a floor rather than a ceiling.

It must never be used to select anyone for redundancy. The full limits are here.

Where to go next

This is the standard task list for the title. The useful next question is which of the tasks you actually do should go near AI, and which should not.

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Exposure ratings from Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs, Science 384, 1306–1308, 2024, used under the MIT licence. This page includes information from the O*NET Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. People Team AI has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Employment figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.