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