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