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Pediatricians, General
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and injuries in children. May refer patients to specialists for further diagnosis or treatment, as needed.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury in infants and children.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Examine children regularly to assess their growth and development.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Advise patients, parents or guardians, and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients and parents or guardians.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.People already use AI for this at work
- 08Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Plan and execute medical care programs to aid in the mental and physical growth and development of children and adolescents.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 lossToo little dataNot enough work use was seen to measure. This does not mean the job is safe from AI.Anthropic, 2026
48%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 48% 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.