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