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