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