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