The Challenge of Teaching Occupational Medicine to Medical Students

Baillargeon, Martine; Maheux, Brigitte; Gilbert, Andrée

doi:10.1097/jom.0b013e31822cfd4f

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“…An additional benefit of the online patient-based scenarios may be to facilitate interest in and acquisition of knowledge and competencies in occupational medicine as implemented in training of medical students. 40 Occupational health physiotherapy as a subspecialty receives limited curriculum time in most undergraduate programs 41 despite the prevalence and cost of work-related injuries in developed countries.…”

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Using technology to enhance physical therapy students’ problem-solving skills around safe patient handling

Johnston

Nitz

Isles

et al. 2013

Physical Therapy Reviews

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Background: Physical therapy students are at risk of musculoskeletal injuries during patient handling. Current guidelines recommend a risk management approach to reduce the likelihood of injury associated with patient handling. Objectives: To determine the benefits of online scenarios using scenario-based learning interactive (SBLiH) to enhance students' confidence in making decisions around patient handling techniques, including equipment, and in practical patient handling skills. Methods: Third year undergraduate and first year graduate-entry masters (GEM) students from the 2011 cohort of the physical therapy program at The University of Queensland received comprehensive training in patient handling. Only GEM students completed two SBLi patient scenarios. Students' confidence in selecting patient handling techniques and equipment was assessed pre-and post-training with three statements scored on a 10-cm visual analogue scale anchored from strongly disagree to strongly agree. Patient handling skills were assessed with a practical skill assessment. Student satisfaction with SBLi as a learning platform was determined with three items and a focus group with eight students. Results: Students' confidence in performing a patient risk assessment and selecting appropriate patient handling technique and equipment improved with training. However, the online scenarios provided no additional advantage to the GEM students' confidence in these tasks or in the practical skill assessment. GEM students were moderately satisfied with SBLi as a learning platform, reporting that it assisted their clinical preparation for the clinical environment and increased their awareness for safety of themselves and others. Conclusions: The online interactive scenarios provided no additional benefit but may assist student preparation for the clinical environment.

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Using technology to enhance physical therapy students’ problem-solving skills around safe patient handling

Johnston

Nitz

Isles

et al. 2013

Physical Therapy Reviews

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“…Results of the present study revealed the important roles safety climate and self-efficacy play in shaping NSIs prevention behaviours. Hospitals can improve safety climate by developing strategies to strengthen management commitments to NSIs prevention [48], and provide welldesigned skill-based training to increase physicians' self-efficacy [39,41].…”

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“…Navon et al [16] used safety role models, safety training programmes, and rewarding employee safety performance to increase safety self-efficacy. As shown in past research [39,41], an effective training programme should include various skill-based learning to strengthen workers' beliefs about their abilities to avoid injuries/accidents safety. These recommendations can be applied to hospital settings to enhance physicians' NSI prevention self-efficacy.…”

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Factors associated with physicians’ behaviours to prevent needlestick and sharp injuries

Chen

et al. 2020

PLoS ONE

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ObjectiveNeedlestick and sharp injuries (NSIs) experienced by physicians have been identified as a major occupational hazard. Blood-borne pathogens resulting from the NSIs experienced by physicians pose severe physical and psychological threats to them, as well as people who are around them. However, there is little research focusing on physicians' behaviours to prevent NSIs. In the present study, we investigated the roles of safety climate, job demands experienced by physicians, and physicians' self-efficacy in affecting physicians' behaviours to prevent NSIs.Methods 401 physicians from four teaching hospitals in Northern Taiwan were recruited to participate in an anonymous survey. Among them, 189 physicians returned the completed survey with a response rate of 47.1%. ResultsOverall, respondents reported frequently engaging in NSI prevention behaviours. As expected, safety climate in hospitals and physicians' self-efficacy to prevent NSIs were significantly related to their behaviours to prevent NSIs (r = 0.22 and r = 0.33, respectively). The moderating analysis also revealed that physicians with high self-efficacy tended to engage in NSI prevention behaviours regardless of levels of job demand they experienced. In contrast to our expectation, however, physicians with low self-efficacy engaged in more NSI prevention behaviours when job demands were high than when the demands were low.

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“…As per International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates, approximately two million workers worldwide die from workrelated injuries and illnesses. 1 Men suffer two-thirds of those deaths with groups of a r t i c l e 3 Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela 4 Health Sciences University of Mongolia, Mongolia 5 Universidad del Rosario, Colombia 6 Federal University of Parana, Brazil 7 Hainan Medical University, China 8 Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Turkey 9 University of Zagreb, Croatia 10 Universidad Austral, Chile 11 University de Los Andes, Chile 12 Maulana Azad Medical College, India 13 Kathmandu Medical College, Nepal 14 Northern Institute of Medical sciences, Pakistan 15 University of Malaya, Malaysia 16 Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala 17 Universidad Catolica del Norte, Chile 18 Usmanu Dan Fodio University, Nigeria 19 Ebonyi State University, Nigeria 20 Universidad Alas Peruanas, Peru 21 Nofer Institute of Occupational Medicine, Poland cancers, circulatory diseases and communicable diseases being the most common, 2 however poor recording and differences in the recording criteria should not be overlooked. Not only the physical and psychosocial effects but also the economic aspect of work-related diseases cannot be disregarded.…”

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“…6 Non-recognition and mismanagement of work-related diseases is often linked to inadequate medical training. 7 Therefore, not only for furnishing information on OSH, but also for diagnosing, combating and preventing occupational diseases, the knowledge of physicians and paramedical specialists in particular, should be up-todate regarding the potential causal relationship between work and the diseases. 8 Moreover, they should also be familiar with the basic legal aspects of OSH in the industrialized as well as in transition nations.…”

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Attitude of Medical Students towards Occupational Safety and Health: A Multi-National Study

Bhardwaj¹,

Arteta²,

Batmunkh³

et al. 2015

Int J Occup Environ Med

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The attitude of students from lower-income and lower-middle-income towards importance of OSH is negative. This attitude could be changed by recommending modifications to OSH courses that reflect the importance of OSH. Since paramedical students showed more interest in OSH than medical students, modifications in existing health care system with major role of paramedics in OSH service delivery is recommended.

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The Challenge of Teaching Occupational Medicine to Medical Students

Cited by 17 publications

References 16 publications

Using technology to enhance physical therapy students’ problem-solving skills around safe patient handling

Using technology to enhance physical therapy students’ problem-solving skills around safe patient handling

Factors associated with physicians’ behaviours to prevent needlestick and sharp injuries

Attitude of Medical Students towards Occupational Safety and Health: A Multi-National Study

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