MPH1008

Clinical occupational and environmental medicine

Dr D Goddard

1 hour 30 minutes per week over 14 weeks plus tutorials * First semester

Synopsis This aim is to convey the important ways in which the onset or development of disease is influenced by work, principally in Victoria. At the end of this subject, students will be aware of locally common (or otherwise important) work-related diseases of the locomotor system, psyche, respiratory tract, ear, skin and other systems (including infective and neoplastic diseases). They will also know the elements of taking an occupational history about certain basic treatments, and the influence of disease processes on fitness for work.

Assessment Assignment (2000 words): 50% * Multiple-choice examination: 50%

Prescribed texts

La Dou (ed.) Occupational medicine Appleton and Lange, 1990
Health assessment for work - a guide The Australasian College of Occupational Medicine, 1986