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