Description
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent allergic diseases and disease processes affecting the immune system.
- • Present research findings at national meetings or in peer-reviewed journals.
- • Engage in self-directed learning and continuing education activities.
- • Document patients' medical histories.
- • Conduct laboratory or clinical research on allergy or immunology topics.
- • Provide allergy or immunology consultation or education to physicians or other health care providers.
- • Prescribe medication such as antihistamines, antibiotics, and nasal, oral, topical, or inhaled glucocorticosteroids.
- • Conduct physical examinations of patients.
- • Order or perform diagnostic tests such as skin pricks and intradermal, patch, or delayed hypersensitivity tests.
- • Educate patients about diagnoses, prognoses, or treatments.
- • Interpret diagnostic test results to make appropriate differential diagnoses.
- • Develop individualized treatment plans for patients, considering patient preferences, clinical data, or the risks and benefits of therapies.
- • Coordinate the care of patients with other health care professionals or support staff.
- • Assess the risks and benefits of therapies for allergic and immunologic disorders.
- • Provide therapies, such as allergen immunotherapy or immunoglobin therapy, to treat immune conditions.
- • Perform allergen provocation tests such as nasal, conjunctival, bronchial, oral, food, or medication challenges.
- • Diagnose or treat allergic or immunologic conditions.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
