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General Internal Medicine Physicians
Diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults and adolescents, and are based primarily in an outpatient care setting.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Analyze records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.People already use AI for this at work
- 02Treat internal disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, or problems of the lung, brain, kidney, or gastrointestinal tract.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Prescribe or administer medication, therapy, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Manage and treat common health problems, such as infections, influenza or pneumonia, as well as serious, chronic, and complex illnesses, in adolescents, adults, and the elderly.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Provide and manage long-term, comprehensive medical care, including diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, for adult patients in an office or hospital.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Make diagnoses when different illnesses occur together or in situations where the diagnosis may be obscure.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Monitor patients' conditions and progress 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 loss8%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
46%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 55% 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
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.