What is Occupational and Environmental Medicine and what is the residency like?
Occupational and Environmental Medicine focuses on the health of workers including the ability to perform work; the physical, chemical, biological, and social environments of the workplace; and the health outcomes of environmental exposures. Practitioners in this field diagnose, treat, and prevent morbid conditions caused by environmental exposures and stressors. They recognize that work and the environment in which work is performed can have favorable or adverse effects upon the health of workers as well as of other populations; that the nature or circumstances of work can be arranged to protect worker health; and that health and well-being at the workplace are promoted when workers’ physical attributes or limitations are accommodated in job placement.
