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