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