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