Automation index
How much of a Midwife’s job can AI already do?
Midwives support pregnancy, birth and the weeks after, with their own clinical responsibility.
This percentage does not predict how many people will lose their jobs.
Task comparison
IS WORK OVER?
Midwife
26%
AI can already do 26% of this job.
#206 / 633
View rankingMidwife
Where the time goes
Task weights are our estimates based on O*NET frequency data, not time shares published by O*NET.
The time saving for each task is estimated separately.
| Task | Share | AI | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
Provide prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, or newborn care to patients.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Document patients' health histories, symptoms, physical conditions, or other diagnostic information.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Document findings of physical examinations.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 55% | +4.4 |
Monitor fetal development by listening to fetal heartbeat, taking external uterine measurements, identifying fetal position, or estimating fetal size and weight.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 28% | +2.2 |
Order and interpret diagnostic or laboratory tests.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 28% | +2.2 |
Perform physical examinations by taking vital signs, checking neurological reflexes, examining breasts, or performing pelvic examinations.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 28% | +2.2 |
Develop and implement individualized plans for health care management.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 7% | 28% | +2 |
Educate patients and family members regarding prenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, or interconception care.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 7% | 12% | +0.8 |
Other less frequent tasks (weight estimated from frequency).EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 38% | 28% | +10.6 |
| Total | 100% | 26% |
Modelled workweek: 100% · Public evidence: 0% · Estimate: 100% · Confidence: Low
Skills and activities
- hygiene in a health care setting
- microbiology-bacteriology
- childbirth
- health care legislation
- lactation
- obstetric ultrasonography
- analgesics
- neonatology
- pregnancy
- pharmacology
Sources for this job· O*NET 29-1161.00· ESCO/ISCO 2222
IS WORK OVER?
Physiotherapist
21%
#419 / 633
View rankingPhysiotherapist
Where the time goes
Task weights are our estimates based on O*NET frequency data, not time shares published by O*NET.
The time saving for each task is estimated separately.
| Task | Share | AI | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
Plan, prepare, or carry out individually designed programs of physical treatment to maintain, improve, or restore physical functioning, alleviate pain, or prevent physical dysfunction in patients.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Record prognosis, treatment, response, and progress in patient's chart or enter information into computer.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Administer manual exercises, massage, or traction to help relieve pain, increase patient strength, or decrease or prevent deformity or crippling.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 12% | +1 |
Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjust treatments to achieve maximum benefit.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 8% | 28% | +2.2 |
Direct, supervise, assess, and communicate with supportive personnel.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 7% | 22% | +1.5 |
Confer with the patient, medical practitioners, or appropriate others to plan, implement, or assess the intervention program.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 7% | 12% | +0.8 |
Test and measure patient's strength, motor development and function, sensory perception, functional capacity, or respiratory or circulatory efficiency and record data.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 6% | 12% | +0.7 |
Obtain patients' informed consent to proposed interventions.EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 6% | 12% | +0.7 |
Other less frequent tasks (weight estimated from frequency).EstimateNo public source provides a precise figure. This is our estimate. | 42% | 28% | +11.8 |
| Total | 100% | 21% |
Modelled workweek: 100% · Public evidence: 0% · Estimate: 100% · Confidence: Low
Skills and activities
- orthopaedic manual physiotherapy
- medical terminology
- emergency surgery
- general medicine
- surgery
- human physiology
- geriatrics
- kinetics
- neurology
- pharmacology
Sources for this job· O*NET 29-1123.00· ESCO/ISCO 2264