EMUTOM Pre-employment and periodical medical examinations

EMUTOM (European Module for Undergraduate Teaching of Occupational Medicine)

Medical examinations for fitness for a job:

  • pre-employment and
  • periodical medical examinations

 

Concise description

This EMUTOM lesson (which is part of the chapter about Fitness for work) gives a brief overview of pre-employment medical examinations and preventive periodical medical examinations for workers.

A pre-employment examination aims at protecting the health and safety of the examined person and of third parties by assessing medical fitness for a specific job. A pre-employment examination can be regarded as a kind of screening test and should comply with matching validity criteria. Therefore it is important to know the specific medical requirements for the job. A major question is whether a medical examination can predict health risks and healthy functioning in the future. And of course a pre- employment medical examination method should be acceptable and ethical.

In preventive periodical medical examination the aim is to periodically assess medical fitness for the job. It can be compared with a pre-employment examination.

After this lesson the student can explain when a pre-employment examination is applicable and useful. Furthermore, the student can explain when a preventive medical examination, aimed at fitness for work, is applicable and useful.

If you want to take a look at the self-assessment exercises and the power-point presentation of this lesson, clickhttps://emutom.eu/chapter3.php

Language(s):

English, Spanish

Original Authors:

Dr PBA Smits and Dr F.van Dijk

Original affiliation, ownership:

Public and Occupational Health, University Medical Center Amsterdam

Year of publication:

2012

Charge for use or free:

Free of charge

Categories:

Target group(s):

graduate students, non-OSH-expert professionals, OSH experts; or in training

Usefulness for non-OSH-expert professionals:

Fully useful for non-OSH-expert professionals in health care or other sectors; or in training

Time demand to complete the lesson or course:

4 hours

Comments:

This lesson is part of the EMUTOM module. In total the EMUTOM module contains 9 lessons.

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