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