Physician Assistants
Healthcare Practitioners and TechnicalAI Impact Assessment
This job is relatively safe from AI automation and may even benefit from AI tools.
Physician Assistants with an AI automation risk score of 15%. Analysis includes 12 core tasks.
Safer Career Paths
Family Medicine Physicians
9% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Nurse Practitioners
11% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
3% AI Risk
Human-centered work and decision ownership.
Key Tasks
Supervise and coordinate activities of technicians and technical assistants.
Order medical and laboratory supplies and equipment.
Make tentative diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients.
Interpret diagnostic test results for deviations from normal.
Prescribe therapy or medication with physician approval.
Examine patients to obtain information about their physical condition.
Administer or order diagnostic tests
Upskilling Courses
Data Sources
Analysis based on O*NET data