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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.
- Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- 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.
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- 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.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
Related Technology & Tools
- Hypodermic syringes
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Laptop computers
- Digital medical thermometers
- Vision test equipment
- Personal computers
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Percussion hammers
- Hearing test equipment
- Specimen collection containers
- Suturing kits
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Oxygen hoods
- Medical oxygen masks
- Breathing protection equipment
- Emergency shower stations
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Medical protective masks
- Desktop computers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Dosimetry badges
- Safety glasses
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Otoscopes
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Microsoft Access
- R
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- Database software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- SAS JMP
- NetEpi
- SAS
- Microsoft Office
- Scheduling software
- Medical surveillance software
- STATISTICA
- StataCorp Stata
- Biostatistical software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- Microsoft Excel
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- OpenEpi
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- NCSS
- Epidemiological software
- Web browser software
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- Email software