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Professionals · code 2240

Paramedical practitioners

Paramedical practitioners provide advisory, diagnostic, curative and preventive medical services more limited in scope and complexity than those carried out by medical doctors. They work autonomously, or with limited supervision of medical doctors, and apply advanced clinical procedures for treating and preventing diseases, injuries and other physical or mental impairments common to specific communities. Tasks include - (a) conducting physical examinations of patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status, and recording patients’ medical information; (b) performing basic or more routine medical and surgical procedures, including prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other preventive or curative measures, especially for common diseases and disorders; (c) administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as X-ray, electrocardiogram and laboratory tests; (d) performing therapeutic procedures such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, and infection management; (e) assisting medical doctors with complex surgical procedures; (f) monitoring patients’ progress and response to treatment, and identifying signs and symptoms requiring referral to medical doctors; (g) advising patients and families on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention or treatment of disease and disorders; (h) identifying and referring complex or unusual cases to medical doctors, hospitals or other places for specialized care; (i) reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities to meet legal and professional reporting requirements. Examples of the occupations classified here: - Advanced care paramedic - Clinical officer (paramedical) - Feldscher - Primary care paramedic - Surgical technician Some related occupations classified elsewhere: - General practitioner - 2211 - Surgeon - 2212 - Medical assistant - 3256 - Emergency paramedic - 3258 Note Occupations included in this unit group normally require completion of tertiary-level training in theoretical and practical medical services. Workers providing services limited to emergency treatment and ambulance practice are classified in Unit Group 3258: Ambulance Workers.

None of this job's tasks scored high enough to count. It ranks 181 of 427 for holding up against AI.

76.7
Holds up
against AI Not Exposed

AI could take on 23.3 of 100, on average
so it holds up at 100 − 23.3 = 76.7

That's the whole sum, and you can check it against the ILO's study.

44.8
How hands-on
out of 100

From O*NET, averaged across 2 US jobs

41.4
How fiddly
and cramped

finger skill 44.7 · hand skill 40.2 · cramped spaces 39.4 · 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 44.8 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 50.5, while the average is 23.3. 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.

  1. 50.5

    Reporting births, deaths and notifiable diseases to government authorities to meet legal and professional reporting requirements.

    Medium
  2. 33.5

    Advising patients and families on diet, exercise and other habits which aid prevention or treatment of disease and disorders

    Low
  3. 27.5

    Identifying and referring complex or unusual cases to medical doctors, hospitals or other places for specialized care

    Low
  4. 24.5

    Monitoring patients' progress and response to treatment, and identifying signs and symptoms requiring referral to medical doctors

    Very Low
  5. 23.5

    Administering or ordering diagnostic tests, such as x-ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests

    Very Low
  6. 16.5

    Conducting physical examinations of patients and interviewing them and their families to determine their health status, and recording patients' medical information

    Very Low
  7. 15.4

    Assisting medical doctors with complex surgical procedures

    Very Low
  8. 9.5

    Performing therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound care, and infection management

    Very Low
  9. 9.3

    Performing basic or more routine medical and surgical procedures, including prescribing and administering treatments, medications and other preventive or curative measures, especially for common diseases and disorders

    Very Low

9 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 this one closely, so this is about as reliable as it gets here.

AI helps you
55
AI does it for you
25

Helping wins by 30 points.

estimated Our Gen AI Transition (Gen AI Capacity Study) September 2025 detailed data release data 0.7-work-setting matched to Australian jobs 4111

Compared with similar jobs

There are 92 jobs in the “Professionals” group, averaging 61.2. This one is above that.