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