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