Preventive Medicine Physician
- Promote health and prevent disease through innovative public health strategies.
- Make a significant impact by reducing disease risk and enhancing community well-being.
- Explore diverse fields like aerospace and environmental medicine for unique challenges.
💰 Earn $85K-$239K
📚 Doctoral or Professional Degree
Overview
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.Scoop
Doctoral or Professional Degree
Good (Increasing by 1-5%)
Day-to-Day
- Direct or manage prevention programs in specialty areas such as aerospace, occupational, infectious disease, and environmental medicine.
- Identify groups at risk for specific preventable diseases or injuries.
- 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.
- Supervise or coordinate the work of physicians, nurses, statisticians, or other professional staff members.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed risk reduction measures or other interventions.
Best For You If...
YOU Like 💕
- Working with my hands
- Relating with or serving others
- Thinking and problem solving
You are skilled in 💫
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Complex Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Speaking
- Reading Comprehension
- Active Listening
You value 🙏
- Accomplishing things
- Receiving recognition
- Having freedom
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Preventive Medicine Physician
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