Preventive Medicine Physicians

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
• Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.
• Prepare preventive health reports, including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
• Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
• Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
• Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
• Design or use surveillance tools, such as screening, lab reports, and vital records, to identify health risks.
• 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.
• Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
• 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.
• 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 community health.
• 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.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet291)