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Neurologist

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JOB OUTLOOK

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What They Do

Neurologists Career Video

About This Career

Diagnoses, manages, and treats disorders and diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves, with a primarily nonsurgical focus.

This career is part of the Health Science cluster Therapeutic Services pathway.

A person in this career:

  • Interviews patients to obtain information, such as complaints, symptoms, medical histories, and family histories.
  • Examines patients to obtain information about functional status of areas, such as vision, physical strength, coordination, reflexes, sensations, language skills, cognitive abilities, and mental status.
  • Performs or interprets the outcomes of procedures or diagnostic tests, such as lumbar punctures, electroencephalography, electromyography, and nerve conduction velocity tests.
  • Orders or interprets results of laboratory analyses of patients' blood or cerebrospinal fluid.
  • Diagnoses neurological conditions based on interpretation of examination findings, histories, or test results.
  • Prescribes or administers medications, such as anti-epileptic drugs, and monitor patients for behavioral and cognitive side effects.
  • Identifies and treats major neurological system diseases and disorders, such as central nervous system infection, cranio spinal trauma, dementia, and stroke.
  • Develops treatment plans based on diagnoses and on evaluation of factors, such as age and general health, or procedural risks and costs.
  • Informs patients or families of neurological diagnoses and prognoses, or benefits, risks and costs of various treatment plans.
  • Prepares, maintains, or reviews records that include patients' histories, neurological examination findings, treatment plans, or outcomes.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

People who do this job report that:

  • You would sit most of the time. There's some walking and standing. You may have to lift and carry things like books, papers or tools weighing 10 lbs. or less.
  • Exposed to disease and infections more than once a month through work such as patient care, laboratory work, and sanitation control
  • Work in this occupation requires being inside most of the time

Working in this career involves (physical activities):

  • Seeing clearly up close
  • Speaking clearly enough to be able to be understood by others
  • Identifying and understanding the speech of another person

Work Hours and Travel

  • Regular working hours and limited travel

Specialty and Similar Careers

Careers that are more detailed or close to this career:

  • Adult and Pediatric Neurologist
  • Adult Neurologist
  • Physician
  • General Neurologist
  • Pediatric Neurologist — Treats children who have problems involving the nervous system, such as seizures, delayed speech, weakness, or headaches.

Contact

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  • 1-800-GO-TO-XAP (1-800-468-6927)
    From outside the U.S., please call +1 (424) 750-3900

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