Virtual Patients: Ergonomics XIII – Burnout

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. This lesson is about Mrs. Care and Dr. Unit. They work at the ward for internal medicine. Since Mrs. Care has been promoted and has been working as a head nurse, she has occasionally found herself in a difficult situation. […]

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: Ergonomics X – Healthy Workplaces

This Virtual Patients lesson is relevant for medical students and professionals working in health care. In this lesson, a question and answer session is arranged by MediTell and applies to both employees and employers. Mr. Shawn moderates discussions about e.g. work and life balance, skills of stress management, process of knowledge transfer and positive psychology. […]

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: 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: 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 […]

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 – 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) […]

HealthWISE – Work improvement in Health Services

HealthWISE is a practical, participatory quality improvement tool for health facilities. It encourages workers and managers to work together to improve workplaces and practices with low-cost solutions. Topics include occupational safety and health, personnel management and environmental health. HealthWISE is a combined action and learning tool: the Action Manual helps initiating and sustaining changes for […]

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 […]