Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.
Also called: Attending Emergency Physician, Attending Physician, Emergency MD (Emergency Medicine Doctor), Emergency Medicine Physician (EM Physician), Emergency Physician, MD (Medical Doctor)
- Median pay in Greater Boston
- $356,230
- $171.27/hr
- Jobs in Greater Boston
- 620
- Massachusetts 2024–2034
- −0.1%
- 20 openings a year
- Typical U.S. entry requirement
- Doctoral or professional degree
- plus Internship/residency
Greater Boston: Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH metro area, May 2025. Growth and openings: Massachusetts statewide projection.
Pay range in Greater Boston
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $92,410 | $348,610 | $356,230 | $483,750 | $530,920 |
10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.
What you’d do
- Select, request, perform, or interpret diagnostic procedures, such as laboratory tests, electrocardiograms, emergency ultrasounds, and radiographs.
- Evaluate patients' vital signs or laboratory data to determine emergency intervention needs and priority of treatment.
- Perform emergency resuscitations on patients.
- Stabilize patients in critical condition.
- Perform such medical procedures as emergent cricothyrotomy, endotracheal intubation, and emergency thoracotomy.
- Analyze records, examination information, or test results to diagnose medical conditions.
AI and this job
AI exposure: how much of this job’s work AI tools can do or help with, based on national research. It is not a forecast of job loss.
Moderate exposure61 of 100
The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:
- AIOE 63
- Language-model AIOE 62
- GPTs-are-GPTs 57
Observed AI use today: Not published (Anthropic Economic Index)
Emergency medicine physicians have moderate AI exposure. AI tools may help sort through lab results, vital signs, and imaging to support quick decisions. Resuscitation, stabilizing critical patients, and hands-on procedures like intubation are physical, high-stakes tasks that stay with people.
Likely to change
- Reviewing lab data, scans, and vital signs
- Helping rank which patients need care first
Still relies on people
- Resuscitating and stabilizing critical patients
- Performing emergency procedures like intubation
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