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31100.06 – Hospitalists

Hospitalists manage, coordinate and provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Acute care specialist
  • Emergency physician
  • Hospitalist
  • Inpatient physician

Core competencies

  • Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving to analyze complex medical cases, prioritize care interventions and make informed decisions regarding care and treatment options under time constraints
  • Oral Communication: Oral Expression to clearly convey medical information to patients, families and interdisciplinary teams
  • Categorization Flexibility and Information Ordering to organize patient symptoms and lab findings, to determine the most likely diagnosis
  • Problem Identification and Inductive Reasoning to monitor patients' conditions, reactions to medications and recovery progress to reevaluate treatment plans to change or stop care as necessary
  • Attention to Detail to write detailed patient discharge summaries and send them to primary care physicians for the continuation of treatment
  • Knowledge in Physical Health to inform treatment plans, medication adjustments and rehabilitation strategies tailored to patients' medical histories and current health statuses

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Manage and coordinate patient care throughout treatment.

Additional information

  • Progression to management positions, such as director of laboratory medicine is possible with experience.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • General practitioners and family physicians (31102)
  • Managers in health care (30010)
  • Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating (31209)
  • Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals (31303)
  • Specialists in surgery (31101)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

3 – Health occupations

TEER

1 – Occupations usually require a university degree

Major group

31 – Professional occupations in health

Sub-major group

311 – Health treating and consultation services professionals

Minor group

3110 – Physicians and veterinarians

Unit group

31100 – Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine

Occupational profile

31100.06 – Hospitalists

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