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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”
- 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.
- 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.
- Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
- Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
- Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
- 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.
- Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
- Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
- Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
- Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
- 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.
Related Technology & Tools
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- Laptop computers
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- Safety glasses
- Suturing kits
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- Vision test equipment
- Emergency shower stations
- Hypodermic syringes
- Desktop computers
- Mechanical stethoscopes
- Breathing protection equipment
- Automated external defibrillators AED
- Automated blood pressure cuffs
- Emergency eye wash stations
- Evacuated blood collection tubes
- Manual blood pressure cuffs
- Dosimetry badges
- Otoscopes
- Specimen collection containers
- Hearing test equipment
- Digital medical thermometers
- Scheduling software
- OpenEpi
- StataCorp Stata
- Patient electronic medical record EMR software
- Email software
- Biostatistical software
- R
- SAS
- Database software
- Wolfram Research Mathematica
- NCSS
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Epi Info
- The MathWorks MATLAB
- Tidepool Scientific Software Comprehensive Environmental Toxicity Information System CETIS
- Insightful S-PLUS
- NetEpi
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office
- NCSS Power Analysis and Sample Size PASS
- Epidemiological software
- Medical surveillance software
- Web browser software
- Microsoft Access
- SAS JMP
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- STATISTICA
- Microsoft Word
- Statistical Solutions BMDP
- Tidepool Scientific Software ToxCalc