Internists
Health Science > Therapeutic ServicesProjected Growth: Average
Projected Job Openings
Extensive Preparation Needed
Job Description
Your job is to Physicians who diagnose and provide non-surgical treatment of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults who have a wide range of problems associated with the internal organs.
Common job titles of Internists include:
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Experience and Education
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.
61.25% said they needed a Post-Doctoral Training.
38.75% said they needed a Doctoral Degree.
Tasks
Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
Make diagnoses when different illnesses occur together or in situations where the diagnosis may be obscure.
Provide and manage long-term, comprehensive medical care, including diagnosis and nonsurgical treatment of diseases, for adult patients in an office or hospital.
Manage and treat common health problems, such as infections, influenza or pneumonia, as well as serious, chronic, and complex illnesses, in adolescents, adults, and the elderly.
Immunize patients to protect them from preventable diseases.
Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
Advise patients and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
Analyze records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.
Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients.
Prescribe or administer medication, therapy, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
Treat internal disorders, such as hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, or problems of the lung, brain, kidney, or gastrointestinal tract.
Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
Prepare government or organizational reports on birth, death, and disease statistics, workforce evaluations, or the medical status of individuals.
Provide consulting services to other doctors caring for patients with special or difficult problems.
Advise surgeon of a patient's risk status and recommend appropriate intervention to minimize risk.
Plan, implement, or administer health programs in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention and treatment of injuries or illnesses.
Conduct research to develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
Tools
Vision screeners
Valve mask resuscitators
Vaginal exam specula
Ultrasound imaging scanners
Ultrasound bone density scanners
Tablet computers
Suture scissors
All ToolsSuture forceps
Surgical scalpels
Suction machines
Suction catheters
Splinter forceps
Spirometers
Snellen eye charts
Pulse oximeters
Personal digital assistants PDA
Personal computers
Otoscopes
Orthopedic splints
Ophthalmoscopes
Operating scissors
Neurological hammers
Nasogastric tubes
Mosquito clamps
Microscope slides
Medical tuning forks
Medical lasers
Medical examination protective gloves
Mechanical stethoscopes
Manual blood pressure units
Laptop computers
Laboratory specimen containers
Holter monitors
Glucometers
Flexible fiberoptic endoscopes
Electrosurgery units
Electronic blood pressure units
Electrocardiography EKG machines
Ear forceps
Ear curettes
Dressing forceps
Dictation equipment
Desktop computers
Dermal curettes
Cryosurgical units
Colposcopes
Blood collection syringes
Automated external defibrillators AED
Auditory testing equipment
Angiocaths
Adult Magill forceps
Technologies
MEDITECH software
Allscripts Professional EHR
Billing software
Brickell Research Brickell Medical Office
ChartWare EMR
e-MDs software
e-MDs topsE&M Coder
All TechnologieseClinicalWorks
Epocrates Essentials
GE Healthcare Centricity EMR
Greenway Health PrimeSuite
MedcomSoft Record
Medical reference software
MedMath
Misys Healthcare Systems Mysis Tiger
Novell GroupWise
Practice Partner Total Practice Partner
Scheduling software
SOAPware EMR
Abilities
Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
Cognitive Abilities › Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities › Problem Sensitivity
Combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
Cognitive Abilities › Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities › Inductive Reasoning
Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Oral Expression
Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Oral Comprehension
Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Written Comprehension
Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Cognitive Abilities › Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities › Deductive Reasoning
Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Written Expression
Arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
Cognitive Abilities › Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities › Information Ordering
Generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
Cognitive Abilities › Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities › Category Flexibility