Pediatricians
Health Science > Therapeutic ServicesProjected Growth: Slower than average
Projected Job Openings
Extensive Preparation Needed
Job Description
Your job is to Physicians who diagnose, treat, and help prevent children’s diseases and injuries.
Common job titles of Pediatricians 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.
65.99% said they needed a Doctoral Degree.
13.46% said they needed a Post-Doctoral Training.
Tasks
Explain procedures and discuss test results or prescribed treatments with patients and parents or guardians.
Advise patients, parents or guardians, and community members concerning diet, activity, hygiene, and disease prevention.
Refer patient to medical specialist or other practitioner when necessary.
Monitor patients' conditions and progress and reevaluate treatments as necessary.
Examine patients or order, perform, and interpret diagnostic tests to obtain information on medical condition and determine diagnosis.
Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury in infants and children.
Examine children regularly to assess their growth and development.
Direct and coordinate activities of nurses, students, assistants, specialists, therapists, and other medical staff.
Treat children who have minor illnesses, acute and chronic health problems, and growth and development concerns.
Plan and execute medical care programs to aid in the mental and physical growth and development of children and adolescents.
Operate on patients to remove, repair, or improve functioning of diseased or injured body parts and systems.
Provide consulting services to other physicians.
Prepare government or organizational reports of birth, death, and disease statistics, workforce evaluations, or medical status of individuals.
Plan, implement, or administer health programs or standards in hospitals, businesses, or communities for prevention or treatment of injury or illness.
Conduct research to study anatomy and develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
Tools
Vision screeners
Valve mask resuscitators
Ultrasound imaging scanners
Transcutaneous oxygen monitors
Tourniquets
Thoracostomy tubes
Tablet computers
All ToolsSuture scissors
Suture removers
Suture needles
Suture forceps
Surgical scalpels
Suction machines
Suction catheters
Splinter forceps
Snellen eye charts
Pulmonary artery catheters
Portable ventilators
Phototherapy equipment
Personal digital assistants PDA
Personal computers
Pediatric spirometers
Pediatric pulse oximeters
Pediatric nebulizers
Pediatric Magill forceps
Pediatric endoscopes
Pediatric bronchoscopes
Oxygen analyzers
Oxygen administration equipment
Otoscopes
Orthopedic splints
Oropharyngeal airways
Oral airways
Ophthalmoscopes
Operating scissors
Non-invasive cardio respiratory monitors
Neurological hammers
Neonatal resuscitation masks
Neonatal airways
Nasopharyngeal airways
Mosquito clamps
Medical tuning forks
Medical syringes
Medical masks
Medical examination protective gloves
Medical bulb syringes
Mechanical stethoscopes
Manual blood pressure units
Laryngoscopes
Laryngoscope blades
Laptop computers
Intubation stylets
Intravenous IV equipment
Infant warmers
Infant oxygen masks
Infant laryngoscope blades
Hemostats
Glucometers
Fetal monitors
Fetal doppler units
Facial shields
Evacuated blood collection tubes
Endotracheal ET tubes
End tidal carbon dioxide monitors or supplies
Electronic stethoscopes
Electronic blood pressure units
Electrocardiography EKG machines
Ear forceps
Ear curettes
Dressing forceps
Desktop computers
Dermal curettes
Curved forceps
Cord clamps
Child sized blood pressure equipment
Child oxygen masks
Cervical collars
Capnographs
Blood collection syringes
Baby scales
Automated external defibrillators AED
Auditory testing equipment
Arterial line catheters
Air-oxygen blenders
Technologies
Advanced Data Systems MedicsDocAssistant for Pediatrics
Drug reference software
e-MedRecords CompuKID
Email software
EMR Experts Pediatric EMR
Medical information databases
Patient electronic medical record EMR software
All TechnologiesStatCoder.com STAT E&M Coder
Abilities
Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Oral Comprehension
Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Oral Expression
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
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
Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
Cognitive Abilities › Idea Generation and Reasoning Abilities › Deductive Reasoning
Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Written Comprehension
Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
Cognitive Abilities › Verbal Abilities › Written Expression
See details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Sensory Abilities › Visual Abilities › Near Vision
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