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