Interdisciplinary training opportunities for residents in occupational medicine: The experience of the ERC tour 2012 Article

Toninelli, E, Fostinelli, J, Rosen, MA et al. (2012). Interdisciplinary training opportunities for residents in occupational medicine: The experience of the ERC tour 2012 . Giornale Italiano di Medicina del Lavoro ed Ergonomia, 34(3), 534-536.

cited authors

  • Toninelli, E; Fostinelli, J; Rosen, MA; Lucchini, R; Apostoli, P

abstract

  • This paper describes the experience of the School of Occupational Medicine of the University of Brescia at the current edition of the New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center - Historical Perspectives Tour on Occupational Safety and Health, that involved 5 different industrial and environmental sites, appropriate for understanding the complex occupational health and safety problems. In every site, the partecipanls have interacted with workers and professionals and discussed about the specific work processes, to better understand the risk faced by the workers, occupational pathologies that can occur, personal protective equipment used and preventive measures adopted. This experience has been successful in provide interdisciplinary educations to occupational safety and health professionals in training in order to prepare them for the collaboration and cooperation required to solve the complex occupational health and safety problems they will face in their future careers. © PI-ME, Pavia 2012.

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publication date

  • July 1, 2012

published in

start page

  • 534

end page

  • 536

volume

  • 34

issue

  • 3