Occupation Atlasprosthetist-orthotist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/929b5c9d-2fbf-44f2-980d-2ac6c0dc212f
prosthetist-orthotist
Prosthetist-orthotists design and custom fit prostheses and orthoses for individuals who are missing a limb from accident, disease or congenital conditions or for individuals who have impairments, deficiences or weaknesses due to injury, pathology or congenital malformation. They mix patient care with the design and fabrication of these devices to address their patients' needs.
Job Zone
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- 5
Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
RISRealistic · Investigative · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- R Realistic6.00
- I Investigative5.10
- S Social4.30
- C Conventional3.58
- A Artistic1.99
- E Enterprising1.56
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Orthotists and Prosthetists (29-2091.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (23)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- adhere to organisational guidelines
- advise on rehabilitation exercises
- answer patients' questions
- archive healthcare users' records
- biomechanics
- collect healthcare user's general data
- communicate in healthcare
- comply with legislation related to health care
- comply with quality standards related to healthcare practice
- contribute to continuity of health care
- contribute to the rehabilitation process
- create lifecasts
- design medical supportive devices
- ensure safety of healthcare users
- human anatomy
- instruct patients on supportive devices
- interact with healthcare users
- kinetics
- listen actively
- modify lifecasts
- prosthetic devices
- record healthcare users' progress related to treatment
- rehabilitation
Optional (34)
- assist patients with rehabilitation
- develop therapeutic relationships
- finish prosthetic-orthotic devices
- first aid
- human physiology
- hygiene in a health care setting
- identify patients' medical records
- maintain prosthetic-orthotic devices
- manipulate plastic
- manipulate prosthetic-orthotic device materials
- manipulate wood
- medical informatics
- medical terminology
- modify casts for prostheses
- orthopaedic conditions
- orthopaedic goods industry
- orthopaedics
- orthotics
- pathology
- pedorthics
- perform a prosthetic examination of the patient
- place orders for orthopedic products
- prosthetic-orthotic device materials
- provide health education
- recommend orthopedic goods to customers depending on their condition
- recommend orthotic devices
- record data from biomedical tests
- repair orthopedic goods
- repair prosthetic-orthotic devices
- respond to changing situations in health care
- test prosthetic-orthotic devices
- types of orthopedic supplies
- use e-health and mobile health technologies
- work in multidisciplinary health teams
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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