Also called: Occupational & Environmental Medicine Physician
Doctor who keeps workers healthy and treats job-related injuries and exposures.
Examines a worker exposed to chemicals at a plant, clears an airline pilot for duty, and advises a company on preventing back injuries.
Estimate.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 12 years after high school. Medical school, then an occupational & environmental medicine (preventive medicine) residency, often with an MPH.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school, Graduate school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Public Health.
Growing about average. Shortage of specialists.
Low risk for 10 years. AI helps track exposure records and fitness-for-duty data; exams, injury care and clearance decisions stay the physician's.
Classes: AP Biology, AP Chemistry, Anatomy & Physiology, Physics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1229.
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