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