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