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