Professionals · code 2211
Generalist medical practitioners
Generalist medical practitioners (including family and primary care doctors) diagnose, treat and prevent illness, disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments and maintain general health in humans through application of the principles and procedures of modern medicine. They do not limit their practice to certain disease categories or methods of treatment, and may assume responsibility for the provision of continuing and comprehensive medical care to individuals, families and communities. Tasks include - (a) conducting physical examinations of patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status; (b) ordering laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures and analysing findings to determine the nature of disorders or illnesses; (c) providing continuing medical care for patients including prescribing, administering, counselling on and monitoring curative treatments and preventive measures; (d) performing surgery and other clinical procedures; (e) advising individuals, families and communities on health, nutrition and lifestyle which aid prevention or treatment of disease and disorders; (f) providing referrals to patients and families for specialized care in hospitals, rehabilitation centres or other types of health care centres; (g) identifying, managing and providing referrals for complications before, during and after childbirth; (h) recording patients’ medical information and history and exchanging information with specialist practitioners and other health workers as required for continuing medical care; (i) reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities to meet legal and professional requirements; (j) conducting research in human health and medical services and disseminating the findings such as through scientific reports; (k) planning and participating in programmes designed to prevent the occurrence and spread of common diseases. Examples of the occupations classified here: - District medical doctor-therapist - Family medical practitioner - General practitioner - Medical doctor (general) - Medical officer (general) - Physician (general) - Primary health care physician - Resident medical officer specializing in general practice Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - Psychiatrist - 2212 - Specialist physician - 212 - Surgeon - 2212 - Clinical officer (paramedical) - 2240 - Feldscher - 2240 Notes Occupations included in this unit group require completion of a university-level degree in basic medical education plus postgraduate clinical training or equivalent for competent performance. Medical interns or residents who have completed their university education in basic medical education and are undertaking postgraduate clinical training in general medicine without any area of specialization are included here. Although in some countries ‘general practice’ and 'family medicine' may be considered as medical specializations, these occupations should always be classified here.
None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 231 of 427 for holding up against AI.
Also known as
- general practitioner
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against AI Not Exposed
AI could take on 28.7 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 28.7 = 71.3
That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.
out of 100
From O*NET, averaged across 15 US jobs , so treat it as rough
and cramped
finger skill 41.5 · hand skill 33.8 · cramped spaces 11.8 · averaged
Kind of hands-on work · hands-on under 50 Less than half hands-on
Less than half of this job is hands-on. Robots still matter, but for a smaller part of the work, so we don't sort it any further.
estimated O*NET 31.0 BLS occupational crosswalk chain ISCO-08 to 2010 SOC (Aug 2012, rev. Jun 2015); 2010 to 2018 SOC (Nov 2017); O*NET-SOC 2019 taxonomy data 0.7-work-setting measures chosen by Frey & Osborne (2017) · the grouping is a sorting, not a measurement
What this number leaves out This job rates 27 out of 100 for how hands-on it is. The score above only looks at AI tools, not robots, but for work this far from the physical that matters less.
The tasks behind the score
The score is the average of these. A job is really a bundle of tasks, and an average can hide how uneven that bundle is.
The task AI could do most of scores 47.8, while the average is 28.7. A big gap means some of this job is wide open to AI and some of it barely at all. That's quite different from a job where everything sits somewhere in the middle, even when the averages match.
- 47.8
Conducting research in human health and medical services and disseminating the findings such as through scientific reports
Low - 37.3
Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities to meet legal and professional requirements
Low - 35.5
Recording patients' medical information and history and exchanging information with specialist practitioners and other health workers as required for continuing medical care
Low - 31.3
Planning and participating in programmes designed to prevent the occurrence and spread of common diseases.
Low - 31
Advising individuals, families and communities on health, nutrition and lifestyle which aid prevention or treatment of disease and disorders
Low - 30.5
Providing referrals to patients and families for specialized care in hospitals, rehabilitation centres or other types of health care centres
Low - 30
Ordering laboratory tests, X-rays and other diagnostic procedures and analysing findings to determine the nature of disorders or illnesses
Low - 22
Identifying, managing and providing referrals for complications before, during and after childbirth
Very Low - 21.5
Providing continuing medical care for patients including prescribing, administering, counselling on and monitoring curative treatments and preventive measures
Very Low - 15.5
Conducting physical examinations of patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status
Very Low - 13
Performing surgery and other clinical procedures
Very Low
11 tasks · the High to Very Low labels are the ILO's
from the source Working Paper 140, Generative AI and Jobs 2025 index data 0.7-work-setting
Helped, or replaced?
The score above can't tell a tool that makes you faster from one that does the task instead of you. Jobs and Skills Australia looked at those two things separately, and this is their result, matched to this job.
One Australian job matches, but only partly: not everyone in it does this job. Treat the numbers as a rough guide.
- AI helps you
- 70
- AI does it for you
- 34
Helping wins by 36 points.
estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 2531
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A closer look
There's a written profile for this job, with notes on what changes and what stays human.