Healthcare Practitioners and Technical
Psychiatrists
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent mental disorders.
Also called: Adolescent Psychiatrist, Adult Psychiatrist, Attending Psychiatrist, Board Certified Psychiatrist, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Child Psychiatrist
- Median pay in Greater Boston
- Not published
- Jobs in Greater Boston
- 760
- Massachusetts 2024–2034
- +3.5%
- 40 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
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10% of workers earn less than the first figure and 10% earn more than the last.
What you’d do
- Prescribe, direct, or administer psychotherapeutic treatments or medications to treat mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders.
- Gather and maintain patient information and records, including social or medical history obtained from patients, relatives, or other professionals.
- Collaborate with physicians, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, or other professionals to discuss treatment plans and progress.
- Counsel outpatients or other patients during office visits.
- Analyze and evaluate patient data or test findings to diagnose nature or extent of mental disorder.
- Examine or conduct laboratory or diagnostic tests on patients to provide information on general physical condition or mental disorder.
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.
Higher exposure86 of 100
The index averages three national research measures, each shown as a percentile of all jobs:
- AIOE 84
- Language-model AIOE 90
- GPTs-are-GPTs 84
Observed AI use today: Little or none (Anthropic Economic Index)
AI exposure for psychiatrists is higher, but observed AI use is little or none so far. AI tools could help with record keeping and with organizing patient data and test findings. Counseling patients, prescribing treatment, and working with a care team depend on trust and personal judgment, which AI tools do not replace.
Likely to change
- Gathering and organizing patient records
- Analyzing patient data and test findings
Still relies on people
- Counseling patients during office visits
- Deciding on medications and treatment with the care team
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- Pay difference
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- AI exposure
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- To get started
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Training near Boston
College and school programs in the Boston metro area that lead to this job, with 2023-24 completions (IPEDS).
0 programs near Boston (plus 3 graduate)
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