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