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Job Description
Apply knowledge of general preventive medicine and public health issues to promote health care to groups or individuals, and aid in the prevention or reduction of risk of disease, injury, disability, or death. May practice population-based medicine or diagnose and treat patients in the context of clinical health promotion and disease prevention.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1069.09
☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Preventive Medicine Physicians”.
Also Known As…
- Preventive Medicine Physicians
- Residency Director
- Regional Medical Director
- Public Health Physician
- Public Health Officer
- Public Health Director
- Primary Clinician
- Preventive Medicine Physician
- Occupational Physician
- Occupational Medicine Physician
- Medical Director
- Preventive Medicine Specialist
- Preventive Medicine Officer
- Occupational Medicine Officer
- Occupational Health Physician
- Aerospace Medicine Physician
Tasks for “Environmental Health Physician”
- Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
- Provide information about potential health hazards and possible interventions to the media, the public, other health care professionals, or local, state, and federal health authorities.
- Direct public health education programs dealing with topics such as preventable diseases, injuries, nutrition, food service sanitation, water supply safety, sewage and waste disposal, insect control, and immunizations.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
Related Technology & Tools
- Suturing kits
- Breathing protection equipment
- Medical oxygen masks
- Emergency shower stations
- Otoscopes
- Vision test equipment
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Hearing test equipment
- Dosimetry badges
- Oxygen hoods
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Safety glasses
- Digital medical thermometers
- Laptop computers
- Hypodermic syringes
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Medical protective masks
- Specimen collection containers
- Percussion hammers
- Desktop computers
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Personal computers
- R
- Biostatistical software
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Medical surveillance software
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- SAS
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Scheduling software
- Microsoft Access
- Microsoft Office
- OpenEpi
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- Database software
- Microsoft Excel
- NetEpi
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- SAS JMP
- STATISTICA
- Epidemiological software
- NCSS
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Web browser software
- Email software
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- StataCorp Stata