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