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