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