Which jobs involve conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues?

37 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity, including Allergists and Immunologists, Anesthesiologists, Athletic Trainers, Audiologists, Cardiologists.

What kind of work is this?

It is research and retrieval work. O*NET files it under the work activity "Getting Information" (element 4.A.1.a.1).

Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues

Most of the output can be produced by software today.

An agent can find, read and summarise the sources this work depends on, and it can cover far more of them than a person would ever open. What it does not do is decide which sources deserve trust, or what the findings mean for your situation.

Key facts about this work activity
How automatable	Mostly automatable
Kind of work	Research and retrieval work
Jobs that do it	37 occupations
Tool categories that apply	Web, data and docs, Generalist agents
O*NET activity	Getting Information (4.A.1.a.1)

What this looks like on the job

Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 37 occupations that perform it.

Conduct research on neuropsychological disorders.
Collect data regarding potential hazards from new equipment or products linked to green practices.
Plan, conduct, and evaluate dietary, nutritional, and epidemiological research.
Conduct research in occupational therapy.
Conduct or support research and apply research findings to practice.
Conduct or direct research on speech or hearing topics and report findings for use in developing procedures, technologies, or treatments.
Plan or conduct exercise physiology research projects.
Conduct, or assist in the conduct of, music therapy research.
Research diseases to which animals could be susceptible.
Engage in research activities related to nursing.
Participate in clinical research projects, such as by reviewing protocols, reviewing patient records, monitoring compliance, and meeting with regulatory authorities.
Conduct clinical research on topics such as maternal or infant health care, contraceptive methods, breastfeeding, and gynecological care.
Conduct or direct research on hearing or balance topics and report findings to help in the development of procedures, technology, or treatments.
Conduct medical research to aid in controlling and curing disease, to investigate new medications, and to develop and test new medical techniques.
Conduct research to develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures that prevent or control disease or injury.
Conduct clinical or basic research.
Conduct research to develop or test medications, treatments, or procedures to prevent or control disease or injury.
Participate in neuroscience research activities.

What we would actually use

One recommendation rather than a shortlist, because a shortlist is just your problem handed back. This is what we would buy for research and retrieval work, and what it costs.

Our pickFrom $20/mo · one upgrade when you outgrow it

ClaudeStart hereLong-context assistant with computer use, plus Claude Code for engineering work.From $20/mo FirecrawlWhen you outgrow itTurns any site into clean model-ready markdown, with crawling and extraction.From $16/mo

Research is the one shape of work that needs no integration at all, so a single $20 assistant with browsing is the whole stack. Add a crawler only once you are pulling hundreds of pages on a schedule rather than reading a few.

Chosen for the cheapest thing that does the job, not the best funded. Nothing on this site is sponsored, and the full landscape is there when you want to disagree with us.

The rest of the category

Context, not alternatives to weigh up. We name the layer rather than promise a named product does your specific task.

Web, data and docs

Usage-based

From $30/mo

From $25/mo

Usage-based

Generalist agents

From $20/mo

From $20/mo

From $20/mo

From $24.99/mo

Matched from the kind of work, not from vendor marketing. Check any of them can reach the system your records actually live in — that connection, not the model, is where these projects stall.

How people actually do it

No workflow names this activity yet, but these automate the same kind of work, with the prompts to paste and what to keep for yourself.

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Who does this work

37 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.

Work that goes with it

O*NET groups these under “Research healthcare issues”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.

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Method. The activity, its taxonomy placement and the occupations that perform it come straight from the public-domain O*NET 30.3 database. The automatability band is ours: we map each of O*NET’s 41 generalized work activities to how much of its output current software can produce, assuming a person still reviews and owns the result. It is a coarse three-way judgment on purpose. A precise-looking percentage here would be invented.