Psychotherapist doctor - Salary and Career
Clinical doctors

Psychotherapist 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 Psychotherapist doctor earn

A Psychotherapist doctor earns between $3.023 and $17.250 per month, with an average monthly salary of $7.624 and a median salary of $7.079 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 999 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).


Salary ranges for the Psychotherapist doctor

Monthly Salary Annual Salary Salary Per Week Hourly Salary
Average wage 7.624 91.492 1.906 75
1º Quartile 3.023 36.280 756 30
Median Salary 7.079 84.948 1.770 70
3º Quartile 13.156 157.871 3.289 130
Higher Salary 17.250 207.005 4.313 170


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 Psychotherapist doctor

Clinical doctors must:

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

  • Activities

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


    Sectors that hire Psychotherapist doctor the most in the job market

    • hospital care activities
    • activities of associations for the defense of social rights
    • outpatient care activities
    • general public administration
    • outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
    • service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
    • other human health care activities
    • psychosocial assistance to people with psychic disorders, mental disability and chemical dependency
    • health management support activities
    • welfare services without accommodation




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