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