Occupational Medicine Activities and Skills: An Empirical Study

摘要

This research quantitatively describes activities and skills of three occupational health professional disciplines. This may inform educational curricula, professional certification criteria, organization of services, and training program impact assessment. This research was based on empirical data rather than opinions of experts or general surveys of practitioners. The researchers recruited a national sample of 412 occupational physicians, 129 occupational health nurses, and 196 industrial hygienists, all of whom answered baseline descriptive questions and submitted logs describing activities at specific times. These professionals generated a total of approximately 11,600 individual activity logs.