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