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Sports Medicine Physicians
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent injuries that occur during sporting events, athletic training, and physical activities.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Diagnose or treat disorders of the musculoskeletal system.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 02Order and interpret the results of laboratory tests and diagnostic imaging procedures.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Record athletes' medical histories, and perform physical examinations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Refer athletes for specialized consultation, physical therapy, or diagnostic testing.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Provide education and counseling on illness and injury prevention.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Advise against injured athletes returning to games or competition if resuming activity could lead to further injury.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Examine, evaluate and treat athletes who have been injured or who have medical problems such as exercise-induced asthma.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Record athletes' medical care information, and maintain medical records.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Examine and evaluate athletes prior to participation in sports activities to determine level of physical fitness or predisposition to injuries.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Prescribe medications for the treatment of athletic-related injuries.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 loss3%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
39%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 35% 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 29% 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.