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Emergency Medicine Physicians
Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.Mostly human for now
- 04Stabilize patients in critical condition.Mostly human for now
- 05Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.Mostly human for now
- 06Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Communicate likely outcomes of medical diseases or traumatic conditions to patients or their representatives.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Monitor patients' conditions, and reevaluate treatments, as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss44%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 21% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
- Stabilize patients in critical condition.
- Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.