How do they match: Preventive Medicine Physicians

  • Occupational Medicine Officer
  • Preventive Medicine Officer
  • Public Health Officer

  • Coordinate or integrate the resources of health care institutions, social service agencies, public safety workers, or other organizations to improve community health.
  • 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.

  • Conduct research to increase knowledge about medical issues.
  • Design public or employee health programs.
  • Develop health assessment methods or programs.
  • Direct healthcare delivery programs.
  • Present medical research reports.