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