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