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78851 - Occupational Medicine

Academic Year 2017/2018

Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Campus: Bologna
Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Professions of Prevention Sciences (cod. 8878)

At the end of the course, the students will know the general concepts of the Occupational Medicine

Course contents (12 lectures, 2 hour each)

Part A: introductory lectures that will focus on the general concepts and on the methods applied in the field of Occupational Medicine

Lecture 1 Introduction to occupational medicine (history, statistics, scientific framework, aims, reference legislative frame)

Lecture 2 Risk Assessment: contents and methodology.

Lecture 3 Classification of occupational risk factors (physical, chemical, biological agents, biomechanical and relational factors).

Part B: Occupational hygiene

Lecture 4 General concepts. Exposure limits to noxious agents, environmental and biological monitoring

Lecture 5 Sources of uncertainty and interpretation of monitoring results. Examples of environmental/biological monitoring

Part C: lectures on specific occupational diseases. The focus will be on those conditions with the higher population burden.

Lecture 6 Work-related cancers

Lecture 7 Musculoskeletal disorders II and peripheral entrapment neuropathies

Lecture 8 Work-related skin disorders, occupational hearing loss and barotrauma

Lecture 9 Work-related respiratory diseases (asthma, allergic alveolitis, pneumoconiosis, BPCO)

Lecture 10 Reproductive hazards in the workplace. Legislation for the protection of working mothers

Part D: special topics

Lecture 11 Occupational medicine in the healthcare work setting

Lecture 12 Psychosocial risk factors in the workplace. Models for job-stress. Bullying, mobbing, and burnout

Pira, Romano, Carrer. Manuale di Medicina del Lavoro. Edizioni Minerva Medica, 2017.

Alessio and Apostoli. Manuale di Medicina del Lavoro e Igiene Industriale per Tecnici della Prevenzione. Piccin-Nuova Libraria, 2014.

Written examination

Teaching materials available on AMS Campus