How to hire healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other

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$55.39U.S. median hourly pay
$83,780–$161,470Middle half, yearly
28,630People in this job in the U.S.

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[Job title] at [Company name]
[City, State] · [Full-time / Part-time] · [Pay range]

About the role
[Two or three sentences about your team, the work and why it matters.]

What you will do
• Administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself.
• Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids.
• Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens.
• Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.
• Diagnose health conditions, based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs.
• Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics.
• Educate patients about health care management.
• Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories.

What you bring
• [Required license, certification or years of experience, if any]
• [Education, only if you truly need it. Typical to start in this job: Master's degree]
• Strong reading comprehension, active listening, critical thinking, speaking, writing and active learning skills
• Working knowledge of medicine and dentistry, biology, psychology and therapy and counseling
• [Anything else you would really turn someone away for]

Pay and benefits
[Pay range]. For reference, the U.S. median for this job is $55.39 an hour ($115,210 a year).
[Benefits, schedule and anything else candidates should know.]

How to apply
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Interview questions for healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other

Ask every candidate the same questions, in the same order, and write down what they say. Questions about past work show what someone has actually done.

  1. Tell me about a time you had to administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
  2. Tell me about a time you had to administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
  3. Tell me about a time you had to advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
  4. Tell me about a time you had to conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes. What did you do, and how did it turn out?
  5. Tell me about written instructions, a policy or a manual you had to follow closely. How did you make sure you followed it correctly?
  6. Tell me about a time you had to understand a request or problem that was explained poorly. How did you make sure you got it right?
  7. Describe a decision at work where the obvious answer was wrong. How did you work out the better choice?
  8. Why this job, and why now? What would make you stay here for the long term?

Good answers name a real situation, what the person did themselves and what happened. Avoid questions about age, family plans, religion, health, national origin or anything else unrelated to the job.

What healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other do

  • Administer treatments or therapies, such as homeopathy, hydrotherapy, Oriental or Ayurvedic medicine, electrotherapy, and diathermy, using physical agents including air, heat, cold, water, sound, or ultraviolet light to catalyze the body to heal itself.
  • Administer, dispense, or prescribe natural medicines, such as food or botanical extracts, herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, nutraceuticals, and amino acids.
  • Advise patients about therapeutic exercise and nutritional medicine regimens.
  • Conduct physical examinations and physiological function tests for diagnostic purposes.
  • Diagnose health conditions, based on patients' symptoms and health histories, laboratory and diagnostic radiology test results, or other physiological measurements, such as electrocardiograms and electroencephalographs.
  • Document patients' histories, including identifying data, chief complaints, illnesses, previous medical or family histories, or psychosocial characteristics.
  • Educate patients about health care management.
  • Interview patients to document symptoms and health histories.

Skills that matter most

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningCritical ThinkingSpeakingWritingActive LearningMedicine and DentistryBiologyPsychologyTherapy and Counseling

Education, experience and outlook for healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other

  • Typical education to start: Master's degree (BLS)
  • Job outlook: +5.5% over ten years, faster than average · about 1,900 openings a year (BLS)

What to pay healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other

Pay depends a lot on where the job is. Highest and lowest median yearly pay by state:

StateMedian yearly pay
Maryland$164,670
New York$127,360
Georgia$126,300
California$125,550
North Carolina$117,210
Florida$99,260
Illinois$95,080
Michigan$92,410

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Job duties and skills: O*NET 31.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA), used under the CC BY 4.0 license; O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. JAI Bot has modified this information; USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Pay: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, May 2025. Interview questions and the job description template: JAI Bot, based on the duties and skills above.