Virtual Patients: Ergonomics III, Work environment (physical)
This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. The learning objectives of this lesson are the ability to identify the importance of a healthy workplace environment, to depict 5 or more main components of a healthy working environment, to list 4 major environmental factors in the workplace, to […]
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: 27 year old patient with conjunctivitis and rhinitis
This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, the 27 year old nurse Susan complains of rhinitis, bronchial asthma and eczemas on her hands. Are these complaints work-related or are Susan’s allergic complaints caused by something else? Are you able to find out the cause […]
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: 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 […]
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) […]
Virtual Patients: Workplace Survey
This Virtual Patient lesson Workplace Survey presents a practical case in occupational medicine and is meant for medical students and physicians-in-training for Occupational Medicine. It guides through and teaches the process of making a workplace survey in the specific situation of a chemical laboratory (however, some information can also be applied in other types of […]
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 […]
Protect Patti. Practicing personal protection (PPE)
An online module designed to help selecting personal protective equipment (PPE) for healthcare workers, to protect themselves from exposure to infectious diseases. In addition, the module supports the training in the proper use of PPE by interactive teaching of the moments and order of putting on and off of the PPE. The module also reviews […]
Control of hazardous substances
This course describes possible ways of exposure to hazardous substances in the workplace, and the basic steps to recognize and control exposure. Here, the methodologies and technologies available to control exposures and, hence, reduce risks to health are described. A considerable amount of attention is paid to ventilation systems, contamination and personal protection equipment. In […]