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Preventive Medicine Physicians

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.

Work involves studying and researching non-living objects, living organisms, disease or other forms of impairment, or human behavior. Investigative occupations are often associated with physical, life, medical, or social sciences, and can be found in the fields of humanities, mathematics/statistics, information technology, or health care service.

Investigative

Work involves helping, teaching, advising, assisting, or providing service to others. Social occupations are often associated with social, health care, personal service, teaching/education, or religious activities.

Social

Work involves following procedures and regulations to organize information or data, typically in a business setting. Conventional occupations are often associated with office work, accounting, mathematics/statistics, information technology, finance, or human resources.

Conventional

Work involves designing, building, or repairing of equipment, materials, or structures, engaging in physical activity, or working outdoors. Realistic occupations are often associated with engineering, mechanics and electronics, construction, woodworking, transportation, machine operation, agriculture, animal services, physical or manual labor, athletics, or protective services.

Realistic

Work involves managing, negotiating, marketing, or selling, typically in a business setting, or leading or advising people in political and legal situations. Enterprising occupations are often associated with business initiatives, sales, marketing/advertising, finance, management/administration, professional advising, public speaking, politics, or law.

Enterprising

Work involves creating original visual artwork, performances, written works, food, or music for a variety of media, or applying artistic principles to the design of various objects and materials. Artistic occupations are often associated with visual arts, applied arts and design, performing arts, music, creative writing, media, or culinary art.

Artistic

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Health Diagnosing and Treating Practitioners

Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.

Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.

Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.

Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.

Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.

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.

Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.

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.

Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.

Preventive Medicine Physicians

Overview

Career

What Preventive Medicine Physicians Do

Other Job Titles Preventive Medicine Physicians May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Preventive Medicine Physicians

Overview

Career

What Preventive Medicine Physicians Do

Other Job Titles Preventive Medicine Physicians May Have

Tasks & Responsibilities May Include

Education

Level of Education Attained by Preventive Medicine Physicians

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