Environmental & Occupational Medicine

Environmental & Occupational Medicine
EN5017 - Occupational Medicine, Hygiene and Toxicology
Credit Points
25
Course Coordinator
Dr Finlay Dick

Pre-requisites

A medical degree (MB or MB,BS or MB,ChB)

Co-requisites

Two years clinical experience following full registration.

Overview

Principles of occupational hygiene, sources of hazardous substances, information regarding hazardous substances, risk assessment in occupational hygiene, monitoring hazardous substances, controls of hazardous subjstances, personal protection and asbestos and other fibres. Toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics, mutagens and teratogens, chemical carcinogens. Chemical structures and heatlh, biological and biological effect monitoring, target organ toxicity, toxicology of metals, solvent neurotoxicity, pesticide neurotoxicity. Investigation and management of occupational disease.

Structure

6 one-hour lectures, 1 two-hour practical or workplace visit and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

A two-hour written examination.

EN5018 - Occupational Medicine, Statistics and Law
Credit Points
25
Course Coordinator
Dr Finlay Dick

Pre-requisites

A medical degree (MB or MB,BS or MB,ChB)

Co-requisites

Two years clinical experience following full registration.

Overview

Lectures on the principles of occupational medicine and the role of the multi-disciplinary team. Data types, data distribution, sampling and inference, non-parametric tests, odds ratios and sample size, correlation and regression. Study designs, survey and research methods, data measurement, morbidity and mortality, occupational surveillance schemes and bias, confounding and chance. Sessions on sickness absence, rehabilitation, ill-health retirement, fitness to drive, effects of illness on work. Major environmental hazards, air quality, water pollution, waste disposal, radiation including radiation accidents and microbiological hazards. Lectures covering development, organisation and management of OHS, ethics, employment law and key Health and Safety legislation.

Structure

8 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week.

Assessment

A two-hour written examination.