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