Medical oncologist (clinician) - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Medical oncologist (clinician) - 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 Medical oncologist (clinician) earn

A Medical oncologist (clinician) earns between $2.834 and $20.968 per month, with an average monthly salary of $7.825 and a median salary of $6.490 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 Medical oncologist (clinician)

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 7.825 93.896 1.956 66
1º Quartile 2.834 34.003 708 24
Median Salary 6.490 77.875 1.622 55
3º Quartile 15.991 191.897 3.998 135
Higher Salary 20.968 251.622 5.242 177


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 Medical oncologist (clinician)

Clinical doctors must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Medical oncologist (clinician) the most in the job market

    • hospital care activities
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • health management support activities
    • outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
    • support activities for education
    • outpatient care activities
    • other human health care activities
    • business management consulting activities
    • chemotherapy services




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