EMUTOM Biological agents
EMUTOM Effects of work: biological agents Concise description This EMUTOM lesson has four chapters. In the first chapter biological hazards and risks are generally described and defined. The second chapter is about some specific occupations at risk for exposure to biological agents: health care workers, farmers and outdoor workers. (For a complete picture reference is […]
Virtual Patients: Internship with consequences
This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, you step into the role of a medical student and you work in a large hospital on a internal medicine ward. A 42 year old man, who works as a bricklayer, comes to see you. He has […]
Virtual Patients: Outbreak
This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, you are a family doctor in Toronto, Canada. It is March 17, 2003, a regular patient, a 54-year-old woman recently lost her elderly mother (78) who had only just returned from visiting family in Hong Kong. She […]
Virtual Patients: Patient with chronic dyspnea needs your help!
This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, we are physicians working in the Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin, Poland. As farmers have difficult access to specialized health services, general practitioners (family physicians) in rural areas participate extensively in diagnostic procedures. Please, join a […]
Acute Respiratory Infection prevention and control for healthcare workers
MOOC: Infection Prevention and Control of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs) for healthcare workers in Low- and Middle-Income Countries This course includes nine units with animated and interactive scenarios, first introducing specific risk situations that healthcare workers have faced daily during the pandemic. After the introduction of the risks, preventive measures are presented following the Hierarchy […]
OpenWHO Course: COVID-19 and work: Staying healthy and safe at work during the pandemic
The WHO has developed an online course on COVID-19 and work. In this two hours lasting course, 5 video modules are included. The first module is about infection prevention and control in the workplace, the second module focuses on risk assessment and transmission of COVID-19 at the workplace, the third modele learns you how to […]
OpenWHO course: COVID-19 – Occupational Health and Safety for health workers
The WHO Platform OpenWHO developed a course for health workers who work under challenging or difficult conditions related to COVID-19. In this pandemic health workers are exposed to many different occupational risks to health and safety. In this one hour lasting course the following topics are discussed: (1) infectious risks to health and safety, (2) […]
MOOC: Occupational Health in Developing Countries
Occupational Health in developing countries is a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) provided by the website Future Learn. Through this website you can sign in for this present course. Following the course enables you to increase knowledge about topics like occupational health and diseases, risk factors for illness and injuries at workplaces, workplace hazards and […]
Occupational Health Safety in Agriculture, Basic Occupational Health Services for informal work in India
Occupational Health, Safety in Agriculture is part of a series of 24 modules on Basic Occupational Health Services (BOHS) for informal work. This distance learning module is developed by the Indian Association of Occupational Health, and subsidized by the government of Gujarat, India. It is a YouTube video of 23 minutes. This attractive module has […]
Virtual Patients: A Needle Stick Injury
This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a junior doctor who works on an internal medicine ward is challenged to diagnose a patient with complaints like weight loss, tiredness, poor appetite, and pain in the legs and arms. During the process of diagnosing the […]
Virtual Patients: Running Nose and Breathlessness fits
This lesson presents a practical case in occupational medicine, and is meant for medical students. It concerns the case of Mr. Bun who has a work history in a bakery. Since a few years he suffers from complaints like red, itching eyes, runny nose, sneezing and recently he also developed wheeze and a cough with […]
Health effects of hazardous substances
This course provides an introduction to health hazards caused by substances that are used at work. Basic toxicological terms and concepts (among others: dose response curves, toxicity testing), and types of health effects are explained. The biology and physiology of the most important human target organs and the possible routes and kinetics for toxic substances […]