New Jobs, Novel Technologies, and Changing Hazards at Work and in the Environment and Updates in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

March 11-13, 2021

This course will be offered as a live stream interactive conference. 

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These courses are presented by the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. They provide targeted reviews of one topic area along with a broader update of current topics in occupational and environmental health. The curriculum is designed for occupational and environmental health professionals, including occupational physicians and nurses, and industrial hygienists. It also meets the needs of primary care providers and others engaged in practice and research, including physicians (family medicine practitioners, internists, emergency medicine specialists), advanced practice nurses and other nursing professionals, and physician assistants. Policy makers and medical-legal practitioners also benefit from the curriculum offered.

The first day of the 2021 course, New Jobs, Novel Technologies, and Changing Hazards at Work and in the Environment, addresses the evolving nature of work today arising from changing jobs, the introduction of newer technologies, and the emergence and re-emergence of a range of physical and chemical hazards. This will also be placed in a broader environmental health context. A virtual poster session the evening before the first conference day will supplement this content, including case reports and research data.

The second day and final half-day of the course will cover a multi-topic theme: Updates in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 

OBJECTIVES Attendees completing this course will be able to:

• Improve their understanding of the role of investigating sentinel events in occupational and environmental health practice;

• Adopt new medical knowledge into preventive activities addressing emerging risk factors and new disease entities as well as longstanding problems with new manifestations;

• Increase their knowledge relevant to the evaluation of scientific data in the field of occupational and environmental medicine;

• Expand the differential diagnosis to incorporate a wider range of environmental and occupational factors in various disease processes; • Increase their knowledge of diagnostic methods and treatment options for selected occupational and environmental conditions;

• Improve management in terms of required regulatory management of specific work-related scenarios; • Inform the prioritization of clinical care, research, and public health policy with state-of-the-art updates.