Oncologist (clinical) - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Oncologist (clinical) - 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 Oncologist (clinical) earn

A Oncologist (clinical) 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 Oncologist (clinical)

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 Oncologist (clinical)

Clinical doctors must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Oncologist (clinical) 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
    • chemotherapy services
    • business management consulting activities




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