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