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