Skill Registry

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Marriage and Family Therapist — establishing a no-secrets policy before starting individual/collateral sessions within couples or family work, screening for intimate partner violence individually before proceeding with conjoint therapy, reframing a family's presenting problem (e.g. "our teenager is the problem") into a systemic assessment, maintaining multipartiality across family members, or designing a treatment plan that targets the relational pattern rather than only the identified patient.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Materials Scientist — establishing a structure-property relationship for a new or candidate material, indexing/interpreting an XRD pattern (phase ID, lattice parameter, crystallite size, microstrain), interpreting a DSC/TGA thermal-analysis scan, reconciling a measured property against a micromechanics or thermodynamic model, or designing a synthesis/processing experiment matrix for a materials-development campaign. Distinct from a materials-engineer (selects and qualifies an existing material for a specific designed part, and diagnoses why a fielded part failed) — this role develops and characterizes new materials in the lab, establishing why a structure produces a property in the first place, before any application-specific part exists.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a mathematician — refereeing or verifying a proof before publication, deciding whether a computed numerical result is trustworthy enough to act on, scoping a grant proposal or technical report to the right level of rigor, or isolating a disputed claim in a paper to the one step it actually turns on.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mechanical Door Repairer — diagnosing an out-of-balance garage or overhead door, sizing and replacing torsion springs by cycle life instead of weight chart alone, verifying UL 325 entrapment protection on an automatic operator, specifying hardware for a high-cycle commercial dock door, or working out a track-alignment or cable-failure complaint.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mechanical Drafter — dimensioning and GD&T-tolerancing a machined part or sheet-metal detail per ASME Y14.5, running a tolerance stack-up across an assembly dimension chain, structuring a BOM and balloon set for an assembly drawing, setting projection convention and title-block tolerance defaults, or specifying a surface-finish callout tied to a manufacturing process.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mechanical Engineer — interpreting FEA stress results for fatigue vs. yield risk, selecting a factor of safety by load-case criticality, choosing between materials on strength-to-weight and manufacturability tradeoffs, running a tolerance stack-up on an assembly, or reviewing a CAD design for manufacturability before release to production.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mechanical Engineering Technologist/Technician — inspecting a machined or fabricated part's hole pattern or feature true position on a CMM against a GD&T callout with MMC bonus tolerance, instrumenting a test rig with a strain-gauge Wheatstone bridge (quarter/half/full) to measure bending or axial strain, verifying a load cell's calibration against a reference standard before a proof-load or fatigue test, reducing raw strain or thermal test data into stress and comparing it against a predicted (hand-calc or FEA) value, or building and dispositioning a first-article prototype against the released drawing. Distinct from a mechanical-engineer or mechanical-drafter (own the design, the analysis, and the tolerance scheme) — this role builds, instruments, measures, and tests the physical hardware those roles specified, closing the loop with a real measurement rather than deriving a new design.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mechanical Insulator — specifying pipe, duct, or equipment insulation thickness and material by governing case (thermal efficiency, condensation control, personnel protection, or fire-stop), detailing supports/penetrations/fittings on below-ambient systems to prevent corrosion under insulation, evaluating whether existing pipe/boiler insulation must be handled as asbestos-containing, or writing an insulation takeoff and field inspection punch list.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a first-line supervisor over a mixed-skill technician crew — diagnosing whether a comeback pattern is a technician skill gap or a parts-quality problem, reconciling flat-rate efficiency against comeback rate before crediting a "fast" technician, job-costing a warranty or goodwill redo, assigning jobs by ASE certification and job complexity, or verifying lockout/tagout compliance on a multi-technician repair.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Mechatronics Engineer — designing a backlash-compensation or motion-control algorithm for an electromechanical assembly, choosing motor-side vs. load-side sensor placement, matching inertia ratio and gearing on a servo axis, specifying an EMC/grounding scheme for a mixed mechanical-electrical assembly, or diagnosing whether a field failure is mechanical, electrical, or firmware in origin.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a professional mediator or arbitrator — structuring a mediation agenda and caucus sequence, testing a party's BATNA/WATNA against their stated position, breaking an impasse with a bracket or mediator's proposal, deciding whether a dispute suits mediation vs. binding arbitration, or drafting an enforceable settlement term sheet or arbitration award.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Appliance Technician — rectifying a positive model with zone-specific relief and build-up rather than uniform clearance, deciding whether bench alignment requires dynamic gait adjustment before delivery, selecting device material/rigidity by patient weight and activity level, or diagnosing a localized pain complaint against the socket's pressure map.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a medical assistant — taking and triaging vital signs against a standing-order escalation threshold, administering an injection or 12-lead EKG under a physician's standing order, switching between clinical and administrative tasks within one patient visit, or deciding whether a finding is inside scope-of-practice to handle versus must go straight to the physician or nurse.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a medical dosimetrist — designing an IMRT/VMAT beam arrangement and optimization objectives, resolving a PTV-coverage-vs-OAR-constraint conflict, evaluating a DVH and isodose distribution before physician sign-off, triaging a failed patient-specific QA, or writing a plan directive for therapy handoff. US radiation oncology default (AAPM/ASTRO practice norms).

Use when a task needs the judgment of a medical equipment repairer (biomedical equipment technician / BMET) — triaging simultaneous work orders by patient-safety criticality, deciding whether a device passes electrical-safety and functional return-to-service testing, setting or revising a risk-based PM interval, investigating a repeat-fault device for a recall or reportable-event pattern, or preparing equipment records for a Joint Commission or CMS survey. Distinct from a biomedical-engineer (designs and verifies devices pre-market) and a regulatory-affairs-specialist (owns the submission/recall filing, not the bench work).

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical and Health Services Manager (practice manager, clinical department administrator, hospital unit manager) — managing clinical staffing against patient volume, evaluating a billing/reimbursement or denial-rate problem, handling a patient safety or compliance incident, or balancing quality metrics against cost pressure. Distinct from a physician's clinical-reasoning role — this one manages the operational and administrative system clinicians work within.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Laboratory Scientist (Medical Technologist) — deciding whether a QC-failing analyzer run can release patient results, working a delta-check or hemolysis-index flag before reporting a chemistry value, handling a critical/panic value callback, or investigating why a lab's error rate or turnaround time is off target. US CLIA-regulated hospital/reference lab default. A reasoning aid, not medical advice.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Laboratory Technician — deciding whether to release a chemistry result against a Westgard QC violation, screening a specimen for hemolysis/lipemia/icterus interference before reporting, working a delta-check flag against a patient's prior result, or routing a critical value or blood bank discrepancy through the correct callback/rejection procedure.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Records Specialist / Health Information Management (HIM) professional — assigning ICD-10-CM/PCS or CPT codes from clinical documentation, drafting a compliant physician query, processing a release-of-information (ROI) request under HIPAA's minimum necessary standard, or building a defense response to a payer/RAC coding-denial audit.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Scientist doing preclinical/translational research — designing an in vitro or in vivo experiment, fitting and interpreting a dose-response curve, judging whether an efficacy signal survives replication and assay-quality scrutiny, deciding a go/no-go on program progression, or scoping a GLP-vs-exploratory study. Distinct from a clinical-data-manager (owns trial data integrity, not research design) and a biostatistician (owns statistical methodology for the analysis this role's data feeds into, not the biological research question itself).

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Secretary or Administrative Assistant — triaging a scheduling request by clinical urgency, timing an insurance-eligibility re-verification, working backward from an appointment date to set a prior-authorization submission deadline, or applying HIPAA's minimum-necessary standard to a records-release request.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Medical Transcriptionist — editing a speech-recognition draft for a dictated clinical note, disambiguating a sound-alike drug name or ambiguous abbreviation from dictation, deciding whether a dictation inconsistency should be silently corrected or flagged back to the provider, or managing report turnaround against a clinical-urgency deadline.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Meeting, Convention, and Event Planner — negotiating a hotel/venue contract (room block, attrition, F&B minimum), running a competitive venue RFP, reconciling a post-event master bill against contract minimums, building an on-site run-of-show and contingency plan, or sizing an event budget per attendee.

Use when a task needs the judgment of a Merchandise Displayer/Visual Merchandiser — planning a seasonal reset's labor-hours against a store-closure window, deciding whether a window-display concept is converting foot traffic better than the last one, auditing planogram compliance in-store, or sequencing a fixture layout for eye-level/reach-zone product placement.