Preventive Medicine Physicians

• 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.
• Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
• Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve the community health.
• Prepare preventive health reports including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
• Develop or implement interventions to address behavioral causes of diseases.
• Design, implement, or evaluate health service delivery systems to improve the health of targeted populations.
• Perform epidemiological investigations of acute and chronic diseases.
• 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.
• 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.
• Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
• Deliver presentations to lay or professional audiences.
• Document or review comprehensive patients' histories with an emphasis on occupation or environmental risks.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Preventive Medicine Physicians.

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Active Listening - Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Social Perceptiveness - Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Science - Using scientific rules and methods to solve problems.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Preventive Medicine Physicians.