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