title: [Interdisciplinary training opportunities for residents in occupational medicine: the experience of the ERC Tour 2012].
abstract: This paper describes the experience of the School of Occupational Medicine of the University of Brescia at the current edition of the New York and New Jersey Education and Research Center--Historical Perspectives Tour on Occupational Safety and Health, that involved 5 different industrial and environmental sites, appropriate for understanding the complex occupational health and safety problems. In every site, the participants have interacted with workers and professionals and discussed about the specific work processes, to better understand the risk faced by the workers, occupational pathologies that can occur, personal protective equipment used and preventive measures adopted. This experience has been successful in provide interdisciplinary educations to occupational safety and health professionals in training in order to prepare them for the collaboration and cooperation required to solve the complex occupational health and safety problems they will face in their future careers.
authors: Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale ed Applicata - Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro - Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy.
authors: E
authors: E
authors: Toninelli
authors: J
authors: J
authors: Fostinelli
authors: M A
authors: MA
authors: Rosen
authors: R
authors: R
authors: Lucchini
authors: P
authors: P
authors: Apostoli
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D058025:Interdisciplinary Studies; D007396:Internship and Residency; D009787:Occupational Medicine / Q000193:education*