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