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