Online resources
A resource base for relevant core knowledge
We hold a number of web-based resources that are open for the purpose of learning.
Highlighted resources
- Prevention of Occupational Disease (lecture of 30 April 2009) (PDF, 1.71 MB)
- Taking an occupational history
- Hazard and risk
- Association and cause
- Sickness absence
- Rehabilitation
Other resources
In addition, we are progressively making available other resources, such as support of face-to-face teaching.
- Tutor pack: draft (PDF, 60 KB)
A tutor pack for running face-to-face tutorials in occupational medicine. The pack of guide tutorials can either stand alone or supplement the problem-based learning in the subsequent section. The pack covers the following topics:
Online resource base: full list
As a support to students and teachers we have an ever growing online resource base. Below is a list of current information pages that people are free to access.
- Databases and software
- Journals and publications
- Occupational health internet links
- Asbestos
- Association and cause
- Cancer, work and the environment
- Clinical tasks
- Clinical case studies: Continuing education/Continuing Professional Development
- Control of risks to health from work
- Critical appraisal
- Diploma in Occupational Medicine
- Ergonomics
- Hand arm vibration syndrome
- Hazard and risk
- Health and safety in farms
- Health and safety in the chemical industry
- Health surveillance
- Ill health and the work environment
- Influence of health on work
- Learning experience in occupational medicine
- Management of health and safety in workplaces
- Medical undergraduate: learning objectives
- Noise induced hearing loss
- Occupational and environmental lung disease
- Occupational and environmental skin disease
- Occupational epidemiology
- Occupational exposure and its limits
- Occupational hygiene
- Personal protective equipment
- Rehabilitation
- Searching and appraising environmental health on the internet
- Self assessment: revision check
- Sickness absence
- Taking an occupational history
- Workplace visits (example of assessment; PDF, 88 KB)
- Under-recognition and under-reporting of work-related ill-health
- Zoonoses
A full catalogue of resources can also be found at Agius website: resources