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