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