How do they match: Preventive Medicine Physicians

  • Preventive Medicine Physicians

  • Preventive Medicine Officer
  • Preventive Medicine Physician
  • Preventive Medicine Specialist

  • 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.

  • Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
  • 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.
  • Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
  • Prepare preventive health reports, including problem descriptions, analyses, alternative solutions, and recommendations.
  • Teach or train medical staff regarding preventive medicine issues.