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