title: [Training and information for competent physicians].
abstract: The rule in force and the Guide-Lines concerning the topic point out specific duties for the Occupational Physician; the most important is certainly health survey, which is organized in several formal medical actions; another Occupational Physician's relevant activity is the "collaboration to the risk assessment". Because of the complexity of the construction building industry and because of the central role of the Occupational Physician in health care, the problems which he has to face are two: firstly he has to improve the knowledge about specific risks of the construction building industry; secondly he must adapt his specialistic knowledge, including the methodology acquired during the school training, to the specific organization conditions and risk of the field.
authors.affiliation: Unità Operativa di Medicina del Lavoro, Azienda Ospedaliera Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo, Italy.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Mosconi
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Prandi
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Riva
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007558:Italy; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000193:education*; D018570:Risk Assessment