Occupational and Environmental Medicine

 

Learning Objectives:

1. Demonstrate a systematic occupational and environmental screening history.
    
2. Demonstrate an in-depth history when the patient's complains or physical findings suggest and occupational or environmental health hazard.
    
3. Know the principles that help the physician decide whether an illness is caused by health hazards in the work or living environment.
    
4. Explain basic epidemiologic principles important for understanding and assessing environmental and occupational risk.
    
5. Know how to assess impairment and disability.
    
6. Recognize important environmental and occupational hazards and their medical consequences (e.g. asbestosis, repetitive motion injury, low back pain, toxic exposures).
    
7. Be able to counsel a patient regarding environmental and occupational risks and methods to avoid or ameliorate them.
    
8. List basic ethical, legal, and regulatory concerns for specific risks.