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