Monash Certificate in Clinical Occupational Medicine - PDM1170

The course addresses various physiological and medical conditions that affect work – or can come about from work – such as conditions of the back, limbs, lungs, eyes, ears and skin, together with chronic pain, mental illness, travel illness, head injury, pregnancy and fatigue.

Doctors will learn how to approach medical conditions concerning focused history-taking, fitness for work, including safety-critical work, return to work, workers’ compensation, report-writing, travel advice, and screening for drugs, alcohol and industrial toxins.

At a glance

Fees

A$2050

Who should attend

The Monash Certificate in Clinical Occupational Medicine is designed for GPs, occupational medicine trainees and other medical practitioners who assess and manage patients with work-related problems.

Participants must be qualified medical doctors. International participants are welcome, but participants must possess a very good understanding of medical terminology in English.

What you will learn

On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Discuss a patient's clinical history relevant to work-related health.
  • Assess a patient's capacity for work.
  • Recognise common health conditions that can be caused by work and describe how to manage them.
  • Identify the effects on work of prescribed drugs, illicit drugs and alcohol.
  • Determine a management plan, including associated investigations, for two complex cases in occupational medicine.

Program structure

Day 1

  • Work-centred history taking
  • Low back pain
  • Occupational eye conditions
  • Rehabilitation following head injury

Day 2

  • Return to work after illness or injury
  • Working with mental illness
  • WorkCover patients – some practical issues
  • Lower limb disorders

Day 3

  • Fitness for work
  • Respiratory disorders
  • Medico-legal report writing
  • Upper limb disorders

Day 4

  • Chronic pain
  • Travel medicine
  • Regulated medical examinations
  • Biological monitoring and health surveillance

Day 5

  • Drugs and alcohol at work
  • Fatigue
  • Work-related ear disorders
  • The pregnant worker
  • Skin disorders

Dr David Goddard

Dr David Goddard is a Senior Lecturer, Monash Centre for Occupational & Environmental Health (MonCOEH). He has worked in occupational medicine since 1973 and now teaches medical undergraduates in occupational medicine and postgraduate students in toxicology. He also holds a part time role as Education Project Officer of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational & Environmental Medicine (AFOEM) in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians

Professor Karen Walker-Bone

Professor Karen Walker-Bone

Karen trained originally in Medicine at Southampton University Medical School, UK, graduating in 1991. She chose to specialise in Rheumatology and was awarded a prestigious Arthritis Research UK (now Versus Arthritis) fellowship to do her PhD 1999-2002 about the epidemiology of neck and upper limb disorders in working aged adults and from there developed a particular interest in the relationship between work and health.

Learn more about Professor Karen Walker-Bone

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