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