Appendix A - Required Academic Courses ( for 2-year Resident)

    The most up-to-date listing of classes can be found at the UC registrar's office or at their website:

                      http://www.onestop.uc.edu/learningopp/course_listing.asp

 

Courses

Descriptions
  Basics of Occupational Medicine (Middaugh)

(26-OCCM-786)

 Fall quarter, 2 credits. A survey of various
occupational medicine topics for physicians, industrial hygienists, nurses,
and other health professionals.
  Basics of Environmental Medicine (Middaugh)

(26-OCCM-987)

 Even-numbered spring quarters, 2 credits. An in-depth survey
of pertinent topics, research and case studies in environmental medicine.
  Design and Management of Field Studies (LeMasters)

(26-BE-975)

 Spring quarter, 4 credits.  This course provides
an opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills to formulate a
research problem, write a research proposal, and evaluate research.
Taken in the first year, it is recommended to have thesis ideas ready prior
to taking this class.
  Environmental Health Seminar

(26-ENV-701/702/703)

 Fall, winter, and spring quarters, 1 credit for each quarter. This is the departmental grand rounds and the presenter is typically a noted national authority in one of the key areas of environmental health.

 
  Principles of Occupational Exposure Assessment (Talaska)

(26-EIH-707)

 Fall quarter, 3 credits. This course consists of lectures and demonstrations concerning occupational and environmental problems. Industrial hygiene principles and practices area covered.
  Introduction to Biostatistics (Buncher)

(26-BE-787)

 Fall quarter, 4 credits. This course covers descriptive statistics,
probability distributions, estimation, types of error, significance
level, test of hypothesis, sample size, correlation, linear regression,
and non-parametric methods.
  Introduction to Epidemiology (Buncher or Rinsky)

(26-BE-776)

 Winter or summer quarters, 3 credits.  This is an overview of the methodology
for study of disease in human populations.
  Occ. Health, Hygiene & Safety Workshop (K. Davis)

(29-EIH-819, 29-EIH-820, 29-EIH-821)

 Fall, winter, and spring quarters, 1 credit per quarter. This consists of a multidisciplinary workshop with occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, safety engineering and industrial hygiene students working on a team on a group project.
  Principles of Ergonomics (Bhattacharya)

(26-EIH-792)

 Spring quarter, 3 credits. This course covers ideas and criteria to
achieve optimal mutual fitting of worker capabilities to job
requirements.
  Special Topics-Toxicology (Donovan)

(26-OCCM-791)

 Taught by Dr. Donovan and intended for occupational medicine
residents, this course emphasizes the toxicology of clinical occupational
and environmental medicine. Special topics in toxicology may be
taken as independent study or with other occupational medicine
residents, and is scheduled by mutual arrangement with Dr. Donovan.
  Survey of Public Health (Donovan)

(26-OCCM-746)

 Spring quarter in odd-numbered years, 3 credits. This is an overview of various topics in public health, and issues of current public health concern suitable for
graduate students with a wide variety of health care career interests.

 

3 credit hours are required by the Occ Med Boards in Healthcare
Management. These courses have been used in the past to fulfill this
requirement.

  Occupational Health Management (Freeman)

(26-OCCM-748)

Spring quarter in even-numbered years, 3 credits. This
course is a study of the application of standard business
practices and principles in occupational health.
  Management of Professionals - [taught at the College of Engineering]

(20-MINE-640)

 Spring quarter, 4 credits, this course is an
introduction to the principles and procedures of
management for professionals and the role of administration
in engineering, health care and other professional areas.

 

  Lung and the Environment (Lockey)

(26-OCCM-849) and (26-OCCM-850)

 Winter quarter in even-numbered years, 4 credits.  This course consists of lectures and discussions presented on etiology, pathogenesis, evaluation and treatment of lung diseases of occupational and environmental origin.

 

  Medicolegal Skills (Ross)

(26-OCCM-to be assigned)

 Winter quarter, 2 credits.  This course consists of introduction to the legal system and how scientists and clinicians interact with the system.  Topics include expert witness issues, legislative process, case law development, standard development and policy development.

 

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