Institute of Occupational & Environmental Health

Occupational Medicine Rounds:

Each week, residents in occupational medicine, faculty, interested staff and invited guests attend occupational medicine rounds held at the IOEH. The purpose of the meeting is to address scientific issues of concern to the practice of occupational medicine and to supplement the didactic component of the residency practicum. Meetings also offer an opportunity for preceptors at participating sites, faculty at the Hospital and residents to become acquainted and to facilitate scientific learning and interchange.

All residents are required to attend occupational medicine rounds except when away on outside rotations. Rounds are held from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday. In addition, the residents meet with the attending staff on Tuesday from noon to 1:00 p.m. These meetings are designed for more informal tutorials on a variety of topics, case presentations, review of recent journal articles, a research brown-bag lunch, and board review sessions.

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Following these sessions, participants should be up to date on the latest developments in the field of occupational and environmental medicine. Talks are given by recognized experts in a variety of fields both within the Department of Community Medicine within WVU and external to the University.

The West Virginia University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The WVU office of CME designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1 category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he or she actually spent in the educational activity.

This continuing education activity has been provided by the West Virginia University School of Nursing for 1.2 contact hours. The West Virginia University School of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing education by the State of West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses, Legislative Rule 19CSR11-4 under provider number WV97-0120RN.

The target audience for these rounds are residents in occupational medicine, specialists in the field of occupational and environmental medicine, physicians with an interest in occupational and environmental medicine, occupational health nurses, and other professionals in the occupational health and safety field. The primary sponsor for these rounds is the WVU School of Medicine.

In accordance with the accreditation counsel for continuing medical education requirements on disclosure, information about relationships of presenters with commercial interest (if any) will be included in materials distributed at the time of the conference.

Additional didactic opportunities are available through NIOSH. In particular, the weekly Division of Respiratory Disease Studies (DRDS) seminars are held on Wednesdays at 10:30 AM. Residents are forwarded topic announcements each week via e-mail.