Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.

“Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.” is a core task performed by Midwives. Among the occupation's 36 rated tasks, workers place it 29th by importance (#8 most important). About 100% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Collect information about patients or clients. in Getting Information

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E2. Exposure with tools — software built on top of a language model (not the model alone) could cut the time by at least half.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.50. Automation potential label: T2.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Monitor maternal condition during labor by checking vital signs, monitoring uterine contractions, or performing physical examinations. · importance 4.7
• Identify tubal and ectopic pregnancies and refer patients for treatments. · importance 4.7
• Provide necessary medical care for infants at birth, including emergency care such as resuscitation. · importance 4.6
• Conduct ongoing prenatal health assessments, tracking changes in physical and emotional health. · importance 4.6
• Monitor fetal growth and well-being through heartbeat detection, body measurement, and palpation. · importance 4.6
• Establish and follow emergency or contingency plans for mothers and newborns. · importance 4.6
• Identify, monitor, or treat pregnancy-related problems such as hypertension, gestational diabetes, pre-term labor, or retarded fetal growth. · importance 4.6
• Evaluate patients' laboratory and medical records, requesting assistance from other practitioners when necessary. · importance 4.5
• Assess the status of post-date pregnancies to determine treatments and interventions. · importance 4.4
• Maintain documentation of all patients' contacts, reviewing and updating records as necessary. · importance 4.4
• Set up or monitor the administration of oxygen or medications. · importance 4.4
• Suture perineal lacerations. · importance 4.4
• Perform post-partum health assessments of mothers and babies at regular intervals. · importance 4.4
• Test patients' hemoglobin, hematocrit, and blood glucose levels. · importance 4.3

See all tasks on the Midwives page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

@misc{singulariki-task-17483,
  title  = {Obtain complete health and medical histories from patients including medical, surgical, reproductive, or mental health histories.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/tasks/task-17483}
}