Mission And Goals

• How to evaluate work-related disease by developing clinical occupational medical skills, both in general assessment of patients, and in the areas of dermatology, infectious disease, musculoskeletal injury and orthopedics, ophthalmology, pulmonary medicine, surgery and toxicology as they relate to occupational and environmental illness
• How to design and establish a medical surveillance program to prevent and detect work-related disease
• How to establish an occupational health program and how to determine the types of occupational medical services necessary at an organization
• How to conduct a plant walk-through and to interpret the results of industrial hygiene surveys to assess occupational hazards
• How to recognize when a clinical study should be initiated in an outbreak of occupational illness. An understanding of epidemiology, biostatistics, and applied toxicology is critical. Trainees should recognize the importance of coordinating the efforts of a variety of professionals to conduct these evaluations
• How to prepare educational programs and advise employers/employees on preventive measures (work practice controls, engineering controls, and personal protective equipment) in the workplace
• Familiarity with the legal, ethical, and regulatory issues related to the practice of occupational medicine
• Understanding the standards, including their basis and application, of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration which address occupational health hazards
• Awareness of the important medical literature related to occupational and environmental medicine and ability to review and interpret the results of research studies
• Familiarity with principles of environmental health, including the health effects of water and air pollution, indoor air pollution, hazardous waste in the environment, and ability to recommend measures to reduce health risks from the environment
• How to develop research protocols in occupational medicine