OBJECTIVES To identify the common core competencies required for occupational physicians in Europe. METHOD A modified Delphi survey was conducted among members of the European Association of Schools of Occupational Medicine (EASOM), the Occupational Medicine Section of the Union of European Medical Specialities (UEMS), and of the European Network of Societies of Occupational Physicians (ENSOP...

Smaller is not always better: nanotechnology yields nanotoxicology Howard M. Kipen1 and Debra L. Laskin2 1Clinical Research and Occupational Medicine Division, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, and Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences Institute, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School; and 2Department of Pharmacology and T...

In the future, precision medicine will enable every clinician to tailor treatment and even prevention strategies to an individual's unique characteristics. In order to reach this goal, we need to collect and analyze many different types of data, from many different sources, including symptoms, genomics, and brain circuitry, as well as family dynamics, environmental exposures, and cultural backg...

BACKGROUND There is an established trend towards an increasing number of authors per article in prestigious journals for medicine and health sciences. It is uncertain whether a similar trend occurs to the same extent in journals for specific medical specialties. METHODS Journals focusing on occupational medicine were selected for analysis with regard to single or multiple-authorship per peer-...

OBJECTIVE To examine the opinion of patients of an occupational diseases hospital on the quality of provision of occupational medicine services in Turkey. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 189 patients were interviewed using a 13-item survey about their jobs and workplaces. RESULTS The overall results of this study were as follows: 80.4% of the patients stated that physicians were located at...

1School of Occupational Therapy, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan 2Division of Occupational Therapy, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 3Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA 4Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic Universit...

Department of Occupational Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan Sciencebased Industrial Park Clinic, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Southern Region Labor Inspection Office, Council of Labor Affairs,...

A questionnaire has been developed and disseminated in several European countries to determine common key competences required of occupational medicine specialists. The questionnaire contained 115 subjects relating to eight fields of activity of an occupational medicine physician (occupational hazards to health, assessment of disability and fitness for work, communications, research methods, ma...