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