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