Category: Chemical

EMUTOM Toxicological agents and chemicals

EMUTOM Effects of work: toxicological agents and chemicals Concise description This EMUTOM lesson contains the basic knowledge of occupational toxicology, chemical exposures at the workplace and the principles of environmental and biological monitoring. Examples are given on how to manage potential cases of occupational poisoning. After completing this lesson, you will be able to recognize […]

Virtual Patients: An Exotic Choice

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, as a medical student you will soon be able to start your internship.  You chose Nuclear Medicine. Do you know how to protect yourself against radiation? After you start working in the ward, Mr. Summer comes for […]

Virtual Patients: Enameller’s Breath

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, the 41 year old John works in an enterprise that is specialized in kitchen-ovens manufacture. John experiences difficulties in breathing and is very tired. Which examinations John needs to determine where his complaints come from? Do you […]

Virtual Patients: Week-end rash

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a 47 year old man Yan has a rash on his face. He only has this on weekends and holidays. Where is it from? When Yan discovers that his colleagues are also dealing with this problem, he […]

Virtual Patients: A 59 year old male with dyspnea and cough

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a 59 year old male, Mr. Jasic, suffers from shortage of breath and cough. Do you know was causes mr. Jasic’s breathlessness? Is it caused by smoking, having pets, or because mr. Jasic has worked with hazardous […]

Virtual Patients: They who search will find

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care.  You are a urologist in a group practice. A retired patient is diagnosed with bladder cancer after microhematuria was found by chance.  Tumour resection was followed by several relapses. A radical cystectomy was the next decision. A report has to […]

Virtual Patients: Incidental finding

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. A substantial part of the content of this case is bound to the German legal context of compensation for occupational diseases. You experience this case partly as being a patient. A patient with varicose enters the hospital for surgery. Routine […]

Virtual Patients: Stomach cramps and anemia

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a young patient in a hospital with severe abdominal pain is submitted to an acute abdomen procedure. What blood tests and other examinations are needed? How to interpret a large number of laboratory values? What is the […]

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 […]

MOOC: Chemicals and Health

Chemicals and Health is a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) provided by the website Coursera. Through this website you can sign in for this present course, in which you will learn about chemicals, the way people can be exposed, how you can measure chemicals in a body, how it affects your health and also attention […]

ToxTutor

This lesson teaches you essential principles about toxicology. Topics like dose and dose-response, toxic effects, physiology, the role of chemicals in body functions, standards and guidelines for environmental and occupational exposure, absorption, distribution and excretion are discussed. In total, ToxTutor contains 15 sections, in which per section included topics and learning objectives are described. Often […]