This programme provides the foundations to commence a career in Occupational Medicine, a dynamic specialty that is evolving and growing.
Occupational medicine ensures that workplaces and practice are safe and healthy, allowing employees to be fit for work and at the same time exposed to decreased health risk at the workplace. It has a vital part to play in rehabilitating employees back into work after injury or sickness. This can involve preventative programmes such as immunisations, health surveillance, observing and addressing hazards, and advising organisations (governmental and business) on how to best optimise the health of their most important asset – their employees – while understanding legal issues surrounding workplace safety and employment equality.
This programme enhances the skills required to identify important clinical features, occupational risks and formulate effective management plans for patients and employers.
Who is this programme aimed at?
The programme is aimed at physicians in primary, secondary, and tertiary care who wish to consult on health and wellbeing in the workplace and manage patients with work related problems at a non-specialist level. As such, participants should be qualified doctors registered with their respective professional body.
The programme will be conducted online and solely in English. Participants are required to be proficient in English and to have access to a laptop with a microphone, speakers, webcam, and reliable broadband coverage.
To be accepted onto the programme you must:
What you will learn
This programme is designed to give healthcare professionals a deeper understanding of Occupational Medicine, with a focus on conducting assessments, arriving at diagnoses, and applying relevant legislative and ethical frameworks to support patients and their employers.
By the end of the programme, you will be able to:
The learning material covers assessment of a variety of diseases and disorders in the context of the workplace, attendance and fitness for duty, how to reduce workplace risk through the identification, assessment and control of workplace hazards, including working practices that could impact on human health. It also explores the impact of physical agents, irritants and zoonoses on health, and appropriate principles of risk management, measurement, and control, as well as performing medical fitness assessments for safety critical tasks. These are explored through the three modules; Module 1: Essentials of occupational health, Module 2: Health and safety, and Module 3: Health Surveillance and Fitness for Safety Critical Tasks.
What to expect
This interactive programme blends self-directed learning with tutor-led team-based learning. The programme learning material has been designed by RCPI and a team of leading experts and specialists and is delivered online by iheed.
Throughout the programme, you will engage in:
On successful completion of the full programme, you will be awarded a Professional Diploma in Occupational Medicine by the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.
Programme benefits
About iheed
iheed is a division of Cambridge Education Group and is headquartered in Dublin. iheed is a successful medical education technology organisation that partners with medical universities and postgraduate training bodies to reach doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals all around the world. It delivers postgraduate medical qualifications for healthcare professionals that improve their ability to deliver healthcare while enhancing their career prospects and global mobility.
How to register your interest
To register your interest, please contact iheed at Register your interest at occupationalmedicine@iheed.org
