- 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.
