Nutritionist doctor - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Nutritionist 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 Nutritionist doctor earn

A Nutritionist doctor earns between $1.830 and $18.597 per month, with an average monthly salary of $7.352 and a median salary of $8.000 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 15 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Nutritionist doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 7.352 88.228 1.838 79
1º Quartile 1.830 21.960 458 20
Median Salary 8.000 96.000 2.000 86
3º Quartile 14.183 170.191 3.546 153
Higher Salary 18.597 223.159 4.649 200


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 Nutritionist doctor

Clinical doctors must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Nutritionist doctor the most in the job market

    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • hospital care activities
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • outpatient care activities
    • general public administration




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