Hygienist doctor - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Hygienist doctor - Career description, activities, functions and salary

They carry out medical consultations and care, treat patients and clients, implement disease prevention and health promotion actions, both individual and collective, coordinate health programs and services, carry out expertise, audits and medical investigations, prepare documents and disseminate knowledge in the medical field.

How much does an Hygienist doctor earn

A Hygienist doctor earns between $1.100 and $17.496 per month, with an average monthly salary of $5.340 and a median salary of $3.728 according to an Averwage.com salary survey along with to data of professionals hired and fired by companies in the labor market.

Our research is based on the salaries of 59 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Hygienist doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 5.340 64.081 1.335 36
1º Quartile 1.100 13.200 275 8
Median Salary 3.728 44.733 932 25
3º Quartile 13.344 160.122 3.336 91
Higher Salary 17.496 209.957 4.374 119


Professional job categories

  • Science and arts professionals
    • professionals of biological sciences, health
      • medical professionals
        • clinical doctors

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Main workplaces

Clinical doctors the positions of this CBO family exercise their functions in sectors whose activities refer to health and social services, teaching, research and development. In general, they work on their own, as self-employed, without permanent supervision. They are organized individually and in a work team, developing activities in closed environments, during irregular working hours. Exception made is professionals who work in the Family Health Strategy Program, where they perform their duties as employees, with occasional supervision and fulfill the weekly workload provided for in a specific Ordinance. They may work in uncomfortable positions for long periods and, due to the nature and level of responsibility inherent in the role, may be subject to constant stress. In some occupations, professionals may be subject to the action of toxic, chemical, radioactive and biological materials.


What does it take to work in the field of Clinical doctors

These occupations are performed by professionals with higher education in Medicine, accredited by the Regional Council of Medicine (CRM). The full exercise of functions takes place after a period of one to two years of professional experience and three to four years for the anthroposophic doctor. For the exercise of the function in the Family Health Strategy Program, no previous experience is necessary.


Functions and activities of Hygienist doctor

Clinical doctors must:

  • difusing medical knowledge;
  • perform medical consultation and assistance;
  • perform consultation and medical assistance;
  • perform medical consultation and care;
  • perform investigations, audits and medical inquiries;
  • coordinating health programs and services;
  • perform expertise, audits and medical inquiries;
  • promoting family health;
  • treating patients and clients;
  • diffusion of medical knowledge;
  • spreading medical knowledge;
  • promote family health;
  • demonstrate personal skills;
  • implement health promotion actions;
  • perform medical consultation and service;
  • implementing health promotion actions;
  • perform medical expertise, audits and investigations;
  • elaborate medical documents;
  • treat patients and clients;
  • perform medical expertise, audits and inquiries;
  • coordinate health programs and services;
  • diffusion medical knowledge;

  • Activities

    • setting up a scale of services;
    • developing research in medicine;
    • demonstrate tolerance;
    • participate in planning activities;
    • distribute tasks;
    • perform treatment with chemical agents;
    • cultivating organs and tissues;
    • evaluate expert knowledge;
    • promoting educational activities;
    • promoting health campaigns;
    • demonstrate altruism;
    • issue certificates;
    • setting up service schedule;
    • discuss diagnosis, prognosis and treatment with patients, clients, guardians and family members;
    • demonstrate medical actions;
    • perform complementary exams;
    • assist the regulation of medical activities;
    • perform community health diagnosis;
    • perform in-office assistance;
    • participate in team evaluations;
    • specify inputs;
    • perform physical examination;
    • implanting orthoses and prostheses;
    • prescribe treatment;
    • monitor cognitive/emotional development of the student/educator;
    • disclose information in the media;
    • participate in the management of inputs;
    • prepare teaching material;
    • perform treatment with physical agents;
    • monitor the health status of hospitalized patients;
    • setting up a service schedule;
    • assisting the regulation of medical activities;
    • demonstrate ability to interpret verbal and non-verbal language;
    • select work team;
    • issue prescriptions;
    • assist in the regulation of medical activities;
    • implement worker safety and protection measures;
    • stimulating the patient to develop autonomy and self-care;
    • follow the user's therapeutic plan;
    • participate in meetings, congresses and other scientific events;
    • promote health campaigns;
    • perform organ and tissue transplants;
    • demonstrate ability to listen;
    • demonstrate impartiality of judgment;
    • forward users to other professionals;
    • developing procedures;
    • supervise instrumental propaedeutics;
    • serving users in ubss, in homes or community spaces;
    • establish health action plan;
    • request additional exams;
    • performing treatment with biological agents;
    • teaching classes;
    • demonstrate quickness of perception;
    • promote comprehensive care;
    • participate in continuing education activities;
    • define territory of action;
    • supervise instrumental workup;
    • issue reports;
    • carry out actions to prevent injuries and cures;
    • perform hospital visits;
    • mapping area of operation;
    • monitor health status of hospitalized patients;
    • demonstrate ability to provide humanized care;
    • elaborate informative and normative material;
    • demonstrate ability to preserve medical confidentiality;
    • interpret clinical examination data and complementary exams;
    • perform urgent and emergency care;
    • collect testimonials;
    • demonstrate ability to deal with adverse situations;
    • perform anamnesis;
    • elaborate image documents;
    • perform instrumental workup;
    • request interconsultations;
    • supervise medical acts;
    • examine medical documents;
    • set up service schedule;
    • promote educational activities;
    • prescribe immunization;
    • indicate treatment;
    • fill in compulsory notification forms;
    • manage financial resources;
    • assisting childbirth;
    • evaluate medical acts;
    • organizing scientific meetings;
    • promote vector and zoonosis control actions;
    • provide consultancy and advice;
    • interpret data from clinical examination and complementary exams;
    • demonstrate empathy;
    • archive documents;
    • indicating non-drug therapies;
    • remove organs and tissues;
    • select patients in specific situations;
    • to raise diagnostic hypotheses;
    • identify users' needs;
    • implement environmental health measures;
    • dispatch time;
    • evaluate biographical moment;
    • formulate expert questions;
    • describe medical actions;
    • demonstrate selective attention capacity;
    • develop equipment;
    • issue declarations;
    • elaborate reports;
    • prepare research projects;
    • raise diagnostic hypotheses;
    • manage urgent and emergency situations;
    • provide testimonials;
    • perform gene therapy;
    • inspect work environments;
    • prescribing drugs, medicines, herbal and anthroposophic;
    • registering activities in information systems;
    • elaborate standard operating procedures;
    • dispatch work;
    • organizing continuing education courses;
    • organize scientific meetings;
    • rehabilitate patients and clients (biopsychosocial conditions);
    • establishing a health action plan;
    • establishing prognosis;
    • encouraging community participation;
    • establish prognosis;
    • supervise health team;
    • to be responsible for all services provided to the enrolled population;
    • elaborate medical records;
    • practicing clinical interventions;
    • demonstrate leadership ability;
    • elaborate protocols for medical procedures;
    • performing gene therapy;
    • demonstrate ability to work in a team;
    • inspect equipment and facilities;
    • updating registration information;
    • practicing interventional procedures;
    • prescribe hygienic-dietary measures;
    • identify groups, families and individuals exposed to risks;
    • elaborate image documents;
    • elaborate reports;
    • implementing environmental health measures;
    • perform an active search for local situations;
    • organizing health promotion groups;
    • issue opinions;
    • redefine the disease for the patient by individualizing its meaning;
    • issuing certificates;
    • participate in association boards, professional associations and health councils;
    • deliver preventive treatments;
    • answer expert questions;
    • define actions according to local priorities;
    • diagnose the health status of patients and clients;
    • monitor the user's therapeutic plan;
    • practicing psychotherapy;
    • guard organs and tissues;
    • demonstrate ability to adapt language;
    • writing scientific papers;
    • indicating the need for hospitalization;
    • planning treatment of clients and patients;
    • establishing medical-hospital committees;
    • performing gene therapy;
    • track prevalent diseases;
    • coordinating the care of users;
    • perform treatment with biological agents;
    • demonstrate ability to make decisions;
    • perform home visits;
    • develop procedures;
    • implementing worker safety and protection measures;
    • implement biosecurity measures;
    • identify partners and resources available in the community;
    • supervise medical training;
    • perform autopsies;
    • demonstrate receptiveness;
    • assist childbirth;
    • guarding organs and tissues;
    • notify diseases, injuries and situations of local importance;


    Sectors that hire Hygienist doctor the most in the job market

    • general public administration
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • immunization and urban pest control
    • hospital care activities
    • health management support activities
    • market and public opinion research
    • attorney services
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • dental activity with resources for performing surgical procedures
    • outpatient care activities




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