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