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