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