Rheumatologist - Salary, Career

How much does an Rheumatologist earn

A Rheumatologist earns between $2.461 and $13.068 per month, with an average monthly salary of $5.412 and a median salary of $4.400 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 45 professionals hired and dismissed by the period from 06/2021 to 05/2022 (last year).

Salary ranges for the Rheumatologist
	Monthly Salary	Annual Salary	Salary Per Week	Hourly Salary
Average wage	5.412	64.947	1.353	60
1º Quartile	2.461	29.531	615	27
Median Salary	4.400	52.800	1.100	49
3º Quartile	9.966	119.590	2.491	111
Higher Salary	13.068	156.811	3.267	145

Professional job categories

Science and arts professionals
- professionals of biological sciences, health
- - medical professionals
- - - clinical doctors

Related Positions:

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 Rheumatologist

Clinical doctors must:

treating patients and clients;

promoting family health;

diffusion of medical knowledge;

perform consultation and medical assistance;

perform medical consultation and service;

demonstrate personal skills;

difusing medical knowledge;

perform medical expertise, audits and investigations;

perform medical expertise, audits and inquiries;

implementing health promotion actions;

spreading medical knowledge;

perform medical consultation and assistance;

coordinate health programs and services;

coordinating health programs and services;

perform medical consultation and care;

perform expertise, audits and medical inquiries;

implement health promotion actions;

diffusion medical knowledge;

elaborate medical documents;

perform investigations, audits and medical inquiries;

treat patients and clients;

promote family health;

Activities

establish prognosis;

practicing clinical interventions;

indicating the need for hospitalization;

perform treatment with physical agents;

serving users in ubss, in homes or community spaces;

prescribing drugs, medicines, herbal and anthroposophic;

manage financial resources;

provide consultancy and advice;

select work team;

issue reports;

request additional exams;

inspect equipment and facilities;

answer expert questions;

formulate expert questions;

notify diseases, injuries and situations of local importance;

dispatch work;

demonstrate ability to adapt language;

performing gene therapy;

implement biosecurity measures;

registering activities in information systems;

demonstrate medical actions;

define actions according to local priorities;

prescribe treatment;

interpret data from clinical examination and complementary exams;

participate in meetings, congresses and other scientific events;

track prevalent diseases;

evaluate medical acts;

develop procedures;

provide testimonials;

demonstrate ability to preserve medical confidentiality;

supervise instrumental propaedeutics;

prescribe hygienic-dietary measures;

implementing worker safety and protection measures;

identify groups, families and individuals exposed to risks;

promote health campaigns;

diagnose the health status of patients and clients;

establishing prognosis;

demonstrate empathy;

issue prescriptions;

fill in compulsory notification forms;

follow the user's therapeutic plan;

demonstrate altruism;

issue certificates;

participate in team evaluations;

disclose information in the media;

to raise diagnostic hypotheses;

archive documents;

perform physical examination;

promote vector and zoonosis control actions;

perform organ and tissue transplants;

issue opinions;

elaborate medical records;

developing procedures;

perform community health diagnosis;

elaborate image documents;

demonstrate quickness of perception;

identify partners and resources available in the community;

implanting orthoses and prostheses;

perform an active search for local situations;

organizing scientific meetings;

elaborate image documents;

establishing medical-hospital committees;

define territory of action;

developing research in medicine;

describe medical actions;

promote educational activities;

develop equipment;

cultivating organs and tissues;

promote comprehensive care;

promoting educational activities;

guard organs and tissues;

prescribe immunization;

evaluate expert knowledge;

indicate treatment;

remove organs and tissues;

assist childbirth;

guarding organs and tissues;

supervise health team;

elaborate standard operating procedures;

mapping area of operation;

supervise medical acts;

perform in-office assistance;

perform complementary exams;

supervise instrumental workup;

establishing a health action plan;

indicating non-drug therapies;

performing treatment with biological agents;

coordinating the care of users;

raise diagnostic hypotheses;

demonstrate ability to interpret verbal and non-verbal language;

demonstrate ability to listen;

implement environmental health measures;

participate in planning activities;

perform autopsies;

monitor the health status of hospitalized patients;

evaluate biographical moment;

assist in the regulation of medical activities;

performing gene therapy;

perform instrumental workup;

carry out actions to prevent injuries and cures;

collect testimonials;

setting up service schedule;

monitor health status of hospitalized patients;

issuing certificates;

set up service schedule;

deliver preventive treatments;

perform treatment with chemical agents;

rehabilitate patients and clients (biopsychosocial conditions);

participate in the management of inputs;

implementing environmental health measures;

prepare teaching material;

elaborate protocols for medical procedures;

updating registration information;

identify users' needs;

implement worker safety and protection measures;

perform treatment with biological agents;

supervise medical training;

assist the regulation of medical activities;

setting up a service schedule;

assisting childbirth;

organizing health promotion groups;

perform anamnesis;

to be responsible for all services provided to the enrolled population;

stimulating the patient to develop autonomy and self-care;

issue declarations;

demonstrate leadership ability;

perform hospital visits;

dispatch time;

participate in continuing education activities;

forward users to other professionals;

monitor the user's therapeutic plan;

elaborate reports;

planning treatment of clients and patients;

demonstrate ability to deal with adverse situations;

promoting health campaigns;

specify inputs;

manage urgent and emergency situations;

assisting the regulation of medical activities;

teaching classes;

organize scientific meetings;

elaborate informative and normative material;

demonstrate impartiality of judgment;

encouraging community participation;

elaborate reports;

demonstrate tolerance;

prepare research projects;

practicing interventional procedures;

demonstrate ability to provide humanized care;

demonstrate receptiveness;

distribute tasks;

discuss diagnosis, prognosis and treatment with patients, clients, guardians and family members;

demonstrate ability to work in a team;

organizing continuing education courses;

perform gene therapy;

demonstrate selective attention capacity;

setting up a scale of services;

interpret clinical examination data and complementary exams;

select patients in specific situations;

monitor cognitive/emotional development of the student/educator;

redefine the disease for the patient by individualizing its meaning;

perform home visits;

participate in association boards, professional associations and health councils;

request interconsultations;

practicing psychotherapy;

examine medical documents;

demonstrate ability to make decisions;

establish health action plan;

writing scientific papers;

perform urgent and emergency care;

inspect work environments;

Sectors that hire Rheumatologist the most in the job market

hospital care activities
outpatient medical activity with resources for performing complementary exams
general public administration
other human health care activities
service activities in emergency room and hospital units for emergency care
activities of associations for the defense of social rights
support activities for education
outpatient care activities
higher education - postgraduate and extension

Rheumatologist - Career description, activities, functions and salary