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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…

• Biological • Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) diseases • Endocrine, Nutrition, Metabolic, Digestive & Genito-urinary diseases • Healthcare & Social Assistance • Infectious, Blood & Immune diseases • Personal protective equipment • Public Safety • Respiratory diseases • Transportation, Warehousing & Utilities • Wholesale and Retail Trade

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,…

• Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing • Biological • Respiratory diseases

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…

• All kinds of sectors • Biological • Diseases (ICD-10) • Infectious, Blood & Immune diseases • Occupational (Safety and) Health • Occupational and Work-Related Diseases • Respiratory diseases • Risks at work • Sector of Industry (NACE)

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,…

• Biological • Employment conditions • Healthcare & Social Assistance • Infectious, Blood & Immune diseases • Occupational (Safety and) Health • Personal protective equipment • Physical • Psychosocial • Respiratory diseases

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…

• All kinds of diseases • All kinds of risks at work • All kinds of sectors • Biological • Chemical • Occupational (Safety and) Health • Occupational and Work-Related Diseases • Physical • Psychosocial

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…

• Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing • All kinds of diseases • Biological • Chemical • Occupational and Work-Related Diseases • Occupational Health Services (OHS) • Psychosocial • Safety, Accident risk

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…

• Biological • Healthcare & Social Assistance • Infectious, Blood & Immune diseases • Injury, Poisoning & External causes (e.g. Accidents) • Occupational (Safety and) Health • Personal protective equipment • Safety, Accident risk

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…

• Biological • Chemical • Ear Nose and Throat (ENT) diseases • Manufacturing • Occupational and Work-Related Diseases • Respiratory diseases • Wholesale and Retail Trade

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…

• Biological • Chemical

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…

• Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing • All kinds of risks at work • Biological • Chemical • Injury, Poisoning & External causes (e.g. Accidents) • Legislation • Physical • Safety, Accident risk

Orientation on Health and Safety for New Agricultural Workers

This interactive lesson teaches about safety behavior, legislation and recognition of job-related hazards. Furthermore, the lesson is a guide in hazards that are common in the broad range of agricultural work, including working alone,…

• Agriculture, Forestry & Fishing • All kinds of risks at work • Biological • Chemical • Injury, Poisoning & External causes (e.g. Accidents) • Respiratory diseases • Safety, Accident risk

Health, Safety and Environment: A Series of Trade Union Education Manuals for Agricultural Workers

This material consists of a series of training manuals, made for educators of agricultural workers to tackle their health, safety and environmental problems. The manuals do not generally consist of ready-to-use material, but need…

• All kinds of risks at work • All kinds of sectors • Biological • Chemical • Domains, Instruments and Tools for OSH • Occupational (Safety and) Health • Other topics • Personal protective equipment • Physical • Risks at work • Sector of Industry (NACE)