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Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

SOC 29-1069.08

Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.

Zone 5 Healthcare Practitioners and Technical

Skills

Knowledge

Job Zone

Green

Top Skills 8

Critical Thinking

4.1

Reading Comprehension

4.0

Active Listening

4.0

Speaking

4.0

Social Perceptiveness

4.0

Judgment and Decision Making

3.9

Writing

3.8

Monitoring

3.8

Knowledge Areas 8

Medicine and Dentistry

5.0

Psychology

4.7

Biology

4.7

Therapy and Counseling

4.6

Education and Training

4.4

English Language

4.2

Customer and Personal Service

4.2

Administration and Management

3.5

Key Tasks

1Document examination results, treatment plans, and patients' outcomes.

2Examine patients to assess mobility, strength, communication, or cognition.

3Assess characteristics of patients' pain such as intensity, location, or duration using standardized clinical measures.

4Provide inpatient or outpatient medical management of neuromuscular disorders, musculoskeletal trauma, acute and chronic pain, deformity or amputation, cardiac or pulmonary disease, or other disabling conditions.

5Monitor effectiveness of pain management interventions such as medication or spinal injections.

Also Known As

Assistant Clinical Professor/Medical Director Subacute Rehabilitation Associate Professor, Physician Attending Physiatrist, Residency Program Director Attending Physician Director of Pediatric Rehabilitation Doctor of Medicine/Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation PM&R Specialist Interventional Pain Physician Interventional Physiatrist MD MD Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation PM&R