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Emergency Medicine Physician

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AVG. SALARY

$239,200

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EDUCATION

First professional degree

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JOB OUTLOOK

Stable

What They Do

Emergency Medicine Physicians Career Video

About This Career

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

This career is part of the Health Science cluster Therapeutic Services pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Analyzes records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
  • Assesses patients' pain levels or sedation requirements.
  • Collects and records patient information, such as medical history or examination results, in electronic or handwritten medical records.
  • Communicates likely outcomes of medical diseases or traumatic conditions to patients or their representatives.
  • Conducts primary patient assessments that include information from prior medical care.
  • Consults with hospitalists and other professionals, such as social workers, regarding patients' hospital admission, continued observation, transition of care, or discharge.
  • Directs and coordinates activities of nurses, assistants, specialists, residents, and other medical staff.
  • Discusses patients' treatment plans with physicians and other medical professionals.
  • Evaluates patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
  • Identifies factors that may affect patient management, such as age, gender, barriers to communication, and underlying disease.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would often handle loads up to 10 lbs., sometimes up to 20 lbs. You might do a lot of walking or standing, or you might sit but use your arms and legs to control machines, equipment or tools.
  • Work in this occupation involves use of protective items such as safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, a hard hat, or personal flotation devices
  • Exposed to disease and infections more than once a month through work such as patient care, laboratory work, and sanitation control
  • Work in this occupation involves using your hands to hold, control, and feel objects more than one-third of the time
  • Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time
  • Sound and noise levels are loud and distracting

Work Hours and Travel

  • Irregular hours
  • Overtime work
  • Weekend work

Contact

  • Email Support
  • 1-800-GO-TO-XAP (1-800-468-6927)
    From outside the U.S., please call +1 (424) 750-3900
  • North Dakota Career Resource Network
    ndcrn@nd.gov | (701) 328-9733

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