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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
- Occupational Health Physician
- Environmental Health Physician
- Aerospace Medicine Physician
Tasks for “Occupational Medicine Physician”
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- 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.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- 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.
- 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.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Desktop computers
- Digital medical thermometers
- Breathing protection equipment
- Personal computers
- Vision test equipment
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Suturing kits
- Medical protective masks
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Hypodermic syringes
- Dosimetry badges
- Medical oxygen masks
- Laptop computers
- Specimen collection containers
- Emergency shower stations
- Hearing test equipment
- Safety glasses
- Oxygen hoods
- Otoscopes
- Percussion hammers
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- STATISTICA
- SAS
- Microsoft Excel
- Email software
- OpenEpi
- NetEpi
- Microsoft Word
- NCSS
- Medical surveillance software
- StataCorp Stata
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- R
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Web browser software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft Office
- Database software
- Biostatistical software
- SAS JMP
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Scheduling software
- Epidemiological software
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Microsoft Access