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Emergency Medicine Physicians

	Median Wage (USD, 2024)	Projected Job Openings (2023-2033)	Projected Growth (2023-2033)
National Statistics	$>=$239,200	1000	3.5%
State Statistics	-	-	-
City Statistics	-	-	-

Statistics

National

State

City

State

City

$>=$239,200

Median Wage (USD, 2023)

1000

Projected Job Openings (2023-2033)

3.5%

Projected Growth (2023-2033)

Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.

Experience Requirements Overview

Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.

Education, Training and Experience

Required Level of Education: Post-Doctoral Training

Related Work Experience: Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years

On-Site or In-Plant Training: Up to and including 1 month

On-the-Job Training: Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month

Detailed Work Activities

Analyze test data or images to inform diagnosis or treatment.
Monitor patient progress or responses to treatments.
Collect medical information from patients, family members, or other medical professionals.
Record patient medical histories.
Advise patients on effects of health conditions or treatments.
Evaluate patient functioning, capabilities, or health.
Confer with other professionals to plan patient care.
Supervise patient care personnel.
Confer with other professionals to plan patient care.
Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
Analyze patient data to determine patient needs or treatment goals.
Monitor patient conditions during treatments, procedures, or activities.
Evaluate patient outcomes to determine effectiveness of treatments.
Treat medical emergencies.
Operate on patients to treat conditions.
Refer patients to other healthcare practitioners or health resources.
Evaluate treatment options to guide medical decisions.
Prescribe medications.
Conduct diagnostic tests to determine patient health.
Diagnose medical conditions.
Order medical diagnostic or clinical tests.
Treat medical emergencies.

Tasks

Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
Stabilize patients in critical condition.
Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
Consult with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
Conduct primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
Communicate likely outcomes of medical diseases or traumatic conditions to patients or their representatives.
Monitor patients' conditions, and reevaluate treatments, as necessary.
Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, assistants, specialists, residents, and other medical staff.
Select and prescribe medications to address patient needs.
Collect and record patient information, such as medical history or examination results, in electronic or handwritten medical records.
Discuss patients' treatment plans with physicians and other medical professionals.
Identify factors that may affect patient management, such as age, gender, barriers to communication, and underlying disease.
Assess patients' pain levels or sedation requirements.
Refer patients to specialists or other practitioners.

Work Styles

Achievement/Effort

Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.

Persistence

Initiative

Leadership

Cooperation

Concern for Others

Social Orientation

Self-Control

Stress Tolerance

Adaptability/Flexibility

Dependability

Attention to Detail

Integrity

Independence

Innovation

Analytical Thinking

Data Source: This page includes information from the O*NET 30.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. This page includes Employment Projections program, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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