Course Number: FMME____ /ACSM 401-52

Course Title: Occupational/Environmental Health in Family Medicine – Charlotte AHEC

** This selective is only one week long and needs to be combined with one other selective offered in Charlotte. The combined selective will still be four weeks.

Faculty: Lawrence Raymond, MD

Prerequisites: Completion of Third-Year Family Medicine Clerkship

Offered: Blocks 3,4,5,6,7,8,9 (Availability depends on Selective ACSM 401-52)

Min. Enrollment: Max. Enrollment: 1

Duration: **This selective is only one week long and needs to be combined with one other selective offered in Charlotte. The combined selective will still be four weeks.

Meeting Times: 8:00 a.m.

Credit Hours: 6

Meeting Place: Carolinas Medical Center, Dept. of Family Medicine

Learning Objectives: At the end of this segment, students will be able to:
• Describe the operations of a Regional Poison Center and the treatment recommended for three common toxic agents (a) to parents in the home and (b) to First Responders in the work environment.
• Characterize health hazards to workers in a facility which repairs heavy construction equipment and ways to minimize these hazards.
• Critique the system used by a hospital network to gauge the risks of health-care workers who have been exposed to blood-borne pathogens and airborne infectious agents.

Learning Activities: This Sub-Selective can be chosen as part of one of the other advanced courses in family medicine offered in Charlotte. Each Student would accompany an Occupational Medicine specialist over the course of a typical week’s activities in (a) Medical Center Employee Health (b) seeing patients with job-related health risks (c) observing Nurse Specialists and Medical Toxicologists in operations of a Regional Poison Center (d) taking call with urban Hazmat firefighters (e) evaluating and treating patients with (non-occupational) conditions in a Family Practice Center.