Jobs / Healthcare / 29-1229.04
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.
- US jobs
- 342,720 (SOC 29-1229 group, "Physicians, All Other")
- Median wage
- $265,930 a year
- Job family
- Healthcare
Can agents do the work of physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians?
We read the evidence for the whole job family, Healthcare: Some tasks (no change in 12 months)
Agents complete 20% or more of the tasks (or projects) on a direct benchmark.
Evidence: MedAgentBench, 69.7% of tasks completed.
21% of this occupation's work, by O*NET work activities, is measured by a direct benchmark (figures for the SOC 29-1229 group).
- 10%Treat injuries, illnesses, or diseasesNot measured
- 9%Prescribe medical treatments or devicesMeasured
- 6%Confer with healthcare or other professionals about patient careNot measured
- 5%Advise others on healthcare or wellness issuesNot measured
- 5%Develop patient or client care or treatment plansMeasured
- 5%Maintain health or medical recordsNot measured
- 4%Supervise personnel activitiesNot measured
- 4%Examine people or animals to assess health conditions or physical characteristicsNot measured
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Direct evidence
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Benchmarks for the job family
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Direct evidence
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Also relevant
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Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.
- Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.
- Develop comprehensive plans for immediate and long-term rehabilitation, including therapeutic exercise, speech and occupational therapy, counseling, cognitive retraining, patient, family or caregiver education, or community reintegration.
- Assess characteristics of patients' pain, such as intensity, location, or duration, using standardized clinical measures.
- Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions, such as medication or spinal injections.
- Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.
- Consult or coordinate with other rehabilitative professionals, including physical and occupational therapists, rehabilitation nurses, speech pathologists, neuropsychologists, behavioral psychologists, social workers, or medical technicians.
- Prescribe orthotic and prosthetic applications and adaptive equipment, such as wheelchairs, bracing, or communication devices, to maximize patient function and self-sufficiency.
- Diagnose or treat performance-related conditions, such as sports injuries or repetitive-motion injuries.
- Perform electrodiagnosis, including electromyography, nerve conduction studies, or somatosensory evoked potentials of neuromuscular disorders or damage.
- Coordinate physical medicine and rehabilitation services with other medical activities.
- Prescribe physical therapy to relax the muscles and improve strength.
Other job titles for this occupation (18)
Acute Rehabilitation Unit Physiatrist · Attending Physician · EDX Medicine MD (Electrodiagnostic Medicine Medical Doctor) · MD (Medical Doctor) · Pain Management Physician · Pediatric Physiatrist · Physiatrist · Physician · PM and R MD (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Medical Doctor) · Rehabilitation Physician · DO Physician (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Physician) · Interventional Pain Physician · Interventional Physiatrist · Medicine Physician · Pain Medicine Physician · Physical Medicine Physician · Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Physiatrist · Rehabilitation Specialist