Intensivist - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Intensivist - 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 Intensivist earn

A Intensivist earns between $3.792 and $20.443 per month, with an average monthly salary of $9.086 and a median salary of $8.576 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 1.323 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Intensivist

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 9.086 109.028 2.271 77
1º Quartile 3.792 45.501 948 32
Median Salary 8.576 102.913 2.144 73
3º Quartile 15.591 187.087 3.898 133
Higher Salary 20.443 245.314 5.111 174


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 Intensivist

Clinical doctors must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Intensivist the most in the job market

    • hospital care activities
    • general public administration
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • health management support activities
    • pharmaceuticals retail trade, without formula handling
    • social assistance activities provided in collective and private residences
    • support activities for education
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • other human health care activities
    • health plans




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