Train medical providers
Little of this can be handed to software today.
The reporting and paperwork around management automate well. Directing, developing and evaluating people does not, and people do not accept it when it is attempted on them.
| How automatable | Barely automatable |
|---|---|
| Kind of work | Managing, training and developing people |
| Jobs that do it | 49 occupations |
| Tool categories that apply | Enterprise platforms |
| O*NET activity | Training and Teaching Others (4.A.4.b.3) |
What this looks like on the job
Not our paraphrase. These are real task statements recorded against this activity, spread across the 49 occupations that perform it.
- Instruct dental officers and technical assistants in orthodontic procedures and techniques.
- Plan and conduct training programs in dietetics, nutrition, and institutional management and administration for medical students, health-care personnel, and the general public.
- Teach pharmacy students serving as interns in preparation for their graduation or licensure.
- Provide clinical instruction, supervision or training to staff in areas such as anesthesia practices.
- Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.
- Teach physical therapy students or those in other health professions.
- Train or supervise student or subordinate radiotherapy technologists.
- Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
- Train or supervise workers who handle or care for animals.
- Provide formal and informal education to other staff members.
- Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, interdisciplinary health care team members, or community members.
- Coordinate or conduct educational programs or in-service training sessions on topics such as clinical procedures.
- Instruct nurses, residents, interns, students, or other staff on topics such as anesthetic techniques, pain management and emergency responses.
- Plan, provide, or evaluate educational programs for nursing staff, health care teams, or the community.
- Educate and supervise audiology students and health care personnel.
- Inform students and staff of types and methods of anesthesia administration, signs of complications, and emergency methods to counteract reactions.
- Supervise or train cardiology technologists or students.
- Instruct interns or residents in diagnosis and treatment of dermatological diseases.
What we would actually use
Nothing in our landscape addresses this work. That is the honest answer rather than a padded list: this activity needs a person present, or a machine rather than a software agent.
Buy nothing. The reporting and paperwork around management run on whatever you already use for documents, and the part that is actually managing people does not automate at any price.
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.
Enterprise platforms
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.
Who does this work
49 occupations in the O*NET database perform this activity. Each one has a full breakdown of its other tasks.
- Acute Care Nurses
- Allergists and Immunologists
- Anesthesiologist Assistants
- Anesthesiologists
- Athletic Trainers
- Audiologists
- Cardiologists
- Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Critical Care Nurses
- Cytogenetic Technologists
- Dermatologists
- Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
- Dietetic Technicians
- Dietitians and Nutritionists
- Family Medicine Physicians
- Genetic Counselors
- Histotechnologists
- Hospitalists
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
- Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
- Medical Dosimetrists
- Neurodiagnostic Technologists
- Neurologists
- Nuclear Medicine Technologists
- Nurse Anesthetists
- Nurse Midwives
- Occupational Therapists
- Ophthalmic Medical Technologists
- Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric
- Opticians, Dispensing
- Orthodontists
- Orthoptists
- Orthotists and Prosthetists
- Paramedics
- Pharmacists
- Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
- Physical Therapists
- Physicians, Pathologists
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Psychiatric Technicians
- Radiation Therapists
- Radiologic Technologists and Technicians
- Radiologists
- Respiratory Therapists
- Urologists
- Veterinarians
- Veterinary Technologists and Technicians
Work that goes with it
O*NET groups these under “Train others on health or medical topics”. In practice they tend to be done by the same person, in the same sitting.
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.