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Medical Dosimetrists
Generate radiation treatment plans, develop radiation dose calculations, communicate and supervise the treatment plan implementation, and consult with members of radiation oncology team.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Design the arrangement of radiation fields to reduce exposure to critical patient structures, such as organs, using computers, manuals, and guides.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Plan the use of beam modifying devices, such as compensators, shields, and wedge filters, to ensure safe and effective delivery of radiation treatment.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Identify and outline bodily structures, using imaging procedures, such as x-ray, magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, or positron emission tomography.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Calculate the delivery of radiation treatment, such as the amount or extent of radiation per session, based on the prescribed course of radiation therapy.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Calculate, or verify calculations of, prescribed radiation doses.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Develop radiation treatment plans in consultation with members of the radiation oncology team.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Supervise or perform simulations for tumor localizations, using imaging methods such as magnetic resonance imaging, computed tomography, or positron emission tomography scans.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Create and transfer reference images and localization markers for treatment delivery, using image-guided radiation therapy.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Record patient information, such as radiation doses administered, in patient records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 10Advise oncology team members on use of beam modifying or immobilization devices in radiation treatment plans.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 loss45%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 56% 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
Above 32% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
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.