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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”
- Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
- 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.
- 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.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- 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.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- 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.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
- Otoscopes
- Specimen collection containers
- Laptop computers
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Oxygen hoods
- Percussion hammers
- Safety glasses
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Desktop computers
- Hyperbaric oxygen chambers
- Vision test equipment
- Medical protective masks
- Hearing test equipment
- Personal computers
- Hypodermic syringes
- Dosimetry badges
- Suturing kits
- Emergency shower stations
- Medical examination protective gloves
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Digital medical thermometers
- Medical oxygen masks
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Breathing protection equipment
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Microsoft Excel
- R
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- NetEpi
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Epidemiological software
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- StataCorp Stata
- Insightful S-PLUS
- Database software
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Microsoft Word
- OpenEpi
- Microsoft Access
- STATISTICA
- Email software
- SAS JMP
- Web browser software
- Biostatistical software
- SAS
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- NCSS
- Medical surveillance software
- Scheduling software
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Office