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Cardiologists

The short answer

Parts of this job are expected to change. AI can already assist with some of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 89 openings expected each year.

Step 1

Where your job stands

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the middle fifth for how much AI could touch it—right around the middle.

How much AI could touch this job

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Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a quarter of this job's tasks.

What this means

Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the middle fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.

Step 2

What AI can and can’t help with in this job

The score comes from the real, day-to-day tasks of this job—not a guess about the job as a whole. Below are the tasks that matter most in this job, split by whether AI can help with them.

AI can help with or automate about 68% of the tasks in this job.

Tasks AI can help with or automate

  1. Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, or disease prevention.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  2. Answer questions that patients have about their health and well-being.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  3. Calculate valve areas from blood flow velocity measurements.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  4. Compare measurements of heart wall thickness and chamber sizes to standards to identify abnormalities, using the results of an echocardiogram.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

  5. Conduct electrocardiogram (EKG), phonocardiogram, echocardiogram, or other cardiovascular tests to record patients' cardiac activity, using specialized electronic test equipment, recording devices, or laboratory instruments.

    AI could help, but needs extra software

Tasks AI can't do much of

  1. Administer emergency cardiac care for life-threatening heart problems, such as cardiac arrest and heart attack.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  2. Conduct tests of the pulmonary system, using a spirometer or other respiratory testing equipment.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  3. Diagnose cardiovascular conditions, using cardiac catheterization.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  4. Inject contrast media into patients' blood vessels.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

  5. Operate diagnostic imaging equipment to produce contrast-enhanced radiographs of heart and cardiovascular system.

    AI is unlikely to speed this up

Step 3

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