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