Will AI Replace Occupational Therapists?

Test and evaluate patients' physical and mental abilities and analyze medical data to determine realistic rehabilitation goals for patients.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Complete and maintain necessary records.

Routine cognitive or manual task with high vulnerability to automation.

Plan, organize, and conduct occupational therapy programs in hospital, institutional, or community settings to help rehabilitate persons with disabilities because of illness, injury or psychological or developmental problems.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Plan and implement programs and social activities to help patients learn work or school skills and adjust to handicaps.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Select activities that will help individuals learn work and life-management skills within limits of their mental or physical capabilities.

Semi-structured task combining routine and non-routine responsibilities.

Evaluate patients' progress and prepare reports that detail progress.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Train caregivers in providing for the needs of a patient during and after therapy.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Lay out materials such as puzzles, scissors and eating utensils for use in therapy, and clean and repair these tools after therapy sessions.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Consult with rehabilitation team to select activity programs or coordinate occupational therapy with other therapeutic activities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Design and create, or requisition, special supplies and equipment, such as splints, braces, and computer-aided adaptive equipment.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Recommend changes in patients' work or living environments, consistent with their needs and capabilities.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Develop and participate in health promotion programs, group activities, or discussions to promote client health, facilitate social adjustment, alleviate stress, and prevent physical or mental disability.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide training and supervision in therapy techniques and objectives for students or nurses and other medical staff.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Help clients improve decision making, abstract reasoning, memory, sequencing, coordination, and perceptual skills, using computer programs.

Software coding, programming, or application development task highly susceptible to automated generation.

Conduct research in occupational therapy.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Advise on health risks in the workplace or on health-related transition to retirement.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.

Provide patients with assistance in locating or holding jobs.

Complex problem-solving, strategic leadership, or high-empathy task requiring human judgment.