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