Emergency Medicine Physicians
The short answer
This job is expected to meaningfully change. AI can already assist with or automate many of its tasks. In New York State, the number of these jobs is expected to grow over the next decade, with about 123 openings expected each year.
Where your job stands
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth for how much AI could touch it. That doesn't mean the job goes away—it means more of its tasks are the kind AI can help with.
How much AI could touch this job
Looking at the job itself, AI could help with about a third of this job's tasks.
What this means
Compared with other New York jobs, this one is in the second most exposed fifth, out of 656 jobs we could rank. Read more in the methodology.
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 82% of the tasks in this job.
Tasks AI can help with or automate
Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
AI could help, but needs extra software
Tasks AI can't do much of
Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Stabilize patients in critical condition.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
AI is unlikely to speed this up
Jobs you could switch to
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What the move takes
Usually requires a doctoral or professional degree, plus internship/residency.
Getting ready typically takes more than four years.
Skills you already have
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Inductive Reasoning
- Problem Sensitivity
- Biology
- Psychology
New skills to build
- Science
- Operations Analysis