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31100.11 – Preventive medicine physicians

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.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Preventive medicine physician
  • Preventive medicine specialist
  • Specialist in preventive medicine

Core competencies

  • Critical Thinking, Decision Making and Problem Solving to assess risks and benefits of various interventions, potential causes of preventable diseases and previously studied interventions to determine the most effective preventive measures
  • Monitoring to continuously assess the effectiveness of preventive measures or interventions by tracking health outcomes, disease trends, vaccination rates and other relevant metrics
  • Problem Identification and Inductive Reasoning to identify the most vulnerable groups for preventable diseases and investigate the causes in order to develop evidence-based prevention programs
  • Verbal Ability and Speech Clarity to deliver complex presentations on research findings regarding at-risk groups and preventative medicine to professional, medical or academic audiences
  • Analytical Thinking to analyze datasets, previously published studies and occupational or environmental risks to identify at-risk groups for specific preventable diseases or injuries
  • Knowledge in Physical Health to understand the physiological processes, risk factors for various diseases and the impact of lifestyle factors on health outcomes to conduct research and advance understanding on preventable diseases

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • 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 diagnose and treat patients in the context of clinical health promotion and disease prevention.

Additional information

  • Progression to management positions, such as director of laboratory medicine is possible with experience.

Similar occupations classified elsewhere

Exclusions:

  • Dentists (31110)
  • General practitioners and family physicians (31102)
  • Managers in health care (30010)
  • Other professional occupations in health diagnosing and treating (31209)
  • Physician assistants, midwives and allied health professionals (31303)
  • Specialists in surgery (31101)

NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

3 – Health occupations

TEER

1 – Occupations usually require a university degree

Major group

31 – Professional occupations in health

Sub-major group

311 – Health treating and consultation services professionals

Minor group

3110 – Physicians and veterinarians

Unit group

31100 – Specialists in clinical and laboratory medicine

Occupational profile

31100.11 – Preventive medicine physicians

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