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Continuing Medical Education: Occupational & Environmental Health
Training Course in Occupational & Environmental Medicine: One Month Course [12 full days]
Mission:
Enhance theoretical and practical knowledge in occupational and environmental medicine among practicing physicians.
Objective:
The course provides didactical and practicum components to achieve the following objectives:
To promote employee health and productivity
To understand the impact of physical/chemical, ergonomic and psychosocial workplace factors on employee health and performance
To enhance participants' ability to recognize, diagnose, manage, and prevent work-related disorders in the primary health care setting
To recognize how important public health disease impact on employee productivity, and means to accommodate patients in the workplace
To enhance physicians' ability to effectively deal with administrative and clinical aspects of work and non-work disability and return-to-work
Apply relevant knowledge derived from the course in direct patient case management
To familiarize participants' with federal, state, and local laws, regulations and resources of relevance for optimal management of occupational and environmental issues
To provide a basic understanding of risk assessment, risk communication, and risk mitigation from an occupational and environmental health point of view
Course Time:
The course is held once every three months (February, May, August & November).
The schedule consists of three full days (8:00 am or 9:00 am - 4:00 pm or 4:30 pm) per week [Monday, Wednesday and Thursday]
Location:
3800 Woodward, Suite 808, conference room, Detroit, MI 48201
Attendees:
The course welcomes:
Residents in family medicine, internal medicine, orthopedics, physical and rehabilitation medicine etc.
General practitioners
Hospital-based physicians
Fellows such as pulmonary medicine and toxicology
Other interested physicians are also invited to join the course
Course Fee:
The course fee is $1,500.00 per person. This covers the administrative costs, lecture room service, refreshments (coffee and tea), and lecture handouts, and parking.
Syllabus:
The syllabus of the course consists of 52-56 educational hours [practicum is counted as half of the didactic hours] and as follows:
Lectures in the area of work-related illnesses (42 hours)
Three or four half-day site visits to occupational clinics ( 9-12 hours)
Two or three seminars / course participant presentations [4-6 hours]
Three half-day site visits / industrial enterprises ( 9 hours)
Curriculum
The curriculum covers the following areas:
Clinical occupational medicine
Disability management and fit-for-work determination
Occupational hygiene and risk assessment
Hazard recognition, evaluation and control
Management and administration
Federal, state, and local regulations and agencies
Toxicology
Workplace health and surveillance
Ergonomics
Other relevant work-related illnesses, including stress
Assigned reading [Relevant occupational & environmental medicine topics]
Course Requirement:
The course is designed for physicians, including residents licensed to practice medicine in the United States or abroad.
Course Evaluation:
The Score will be measured as follows: Excellent (90 and above), Very Good (80-89), Good (70-79) and Unsatisfactory (Below 70).
Pre-test Vs Post-test questionnaires.
Oral Presentation
Attendance of the course [lectures, sites visits, clinics]
Clinical and site visit reports evaluation
Contact:
Hikmet Jamil, M.D., Ph.D., FFOM.I
Professor / OEM Course Director
Division of Occupational & Environmental Health
Department of Family Medicine & Public Health Sciences
Wayne State University
Voice: (313) 577-2048
Fax: (313) 577-2744
E-mail: hjamil@med.wayne.ed
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