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