Occupational Medicine Specialist
Minimum Education Requirement: M.D. or D.O. degree and completed an ACGME- or AOA-accredited program of postgraduate specialty training.
Healthcare Professional
There are more than 300,000 Airmen in the U.S. Air Force and countless contractors who work with them. As an Air Force Occupational Medicine (OM) Specialist, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and protecting this valuable team. When treating patients, you’ll have all the resources you need and the freedom to consult with OM physicians from other branches of the military. What you won’t have is the burden of running a practice or worrying about insurance reimbursements.
Career Tasks
- Work closely with industrial hygienists, public health and safety specialists, health physicists, local leadership, unions, human relations, labor attorneys and fellow non-OM healthcare providers to deliver excellent occupational healthcare and preventive services to both civilian and active-duty employees
- Consult with fellow OM providers, specialists or labor attorneys by calling Air Force, Navy or Army specialists at bases and learning centers around the country
- Provide care and preventive programs to workers Airmen and civilian contractors
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