The Foundation Course in Occupational Medicine, developed by the University of Alberta Division of Preventive Medicine, is a distance learning course designed to provide knowledge and skills in the areas of occupational medicine encountered in family medicine and other community based clinical practice. The course involves 111 hours of instruction, including monthly teleconferences (HD videoconferencing is available at Dalhousie University’s distributed learning sites) and two face-to-face workshops, in the fundamentals of recognizing and managing work-related disease and injury, fitness for work and the transition back into employment. The program is designed to be taken part-time and to be completed within 10 months. Physicians must be licensed to practice in Canada in order to be eligible to participate in this course.
For more information about the course offered in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island please contact: Course Coordinator at omcourse@ualberta.ca or 780-492-4006. You can also click the image below to be taken to the course's website:
