Across the EU fundamental principles of harmonization and free movement of labor and capital have led to a common basis for health and safety legislation and also the training and mutual recognition of medical specialists and other experts in the field of occupational health. The evolving definition of occupational health includes not only the medical practitioners and occupational specialists, but also a complex group of other stakeholders, such as the employers, workers, inspection services, etc., which imposes establishment of different education and training levels and development of appropriate modern and up-to-date didactic methods. The overall goal of the project is contribution towards harmonization of occupational medicine curriculum in Eastern European countries and improvement of the occupational health knowledge transfer to other stakeholders in work and health..
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The project “Development of core curriculum in Occupational Health” is implemented as an Institutional Partnership between academic and scientific institutions from Switzerland, Macedonia, Serbia and Montenegro and Croatia. The overall goal of the Project is harmonization of occupational medicine curriculum in Eastern European countries and improvement of the occupational health knowledge transfer to other stakeholders in work and health..
The main objective is to identify the common core competencies required for occupational specialists (physicians, hygienists, inspectors) in Eastern Europe, and to develop a core curriculum for education and training in occupational health..
Aiming at assisting the different categories of stakeholders in the area of occupational health, the Project is also dedicated to creating a pool of case studies in occupational medicine with the focus on physical, chemical, biological and ergonomic exposure and emphasis on the occupational medicine approach for individuals (individual cases) as well as on workplaces (exposed collective)..
Such database will contribute towards the improvement of the access of medical students and other stakeholders (such as occupational health professionals, inspection services, governmental officials and non-governmental activists) to materials necessary for obtaining high-quality and effective training in occupational health, as well as it will serve as a resource for continuing education and updates in this area. It will also help for the development the problem oriented learning process as a creative learning method at the university level in the Eastern European countries in accordance with the EU regulation..
The Project invites all health professionals, occupational health experts, medical students as well as other stakeholders to contribute towards building a high quality database of case studies..
The reviewed case studies will be published in a structured searchable database, maintained on the Internet. This database will be made freely accessible to everyone interested in this field..
Selected case studies will be used as a teaching and reference material at the Regional Summer School in Occupational Health..
The case studies should be between 1,000 – 1,500 words long, describing a positive or negative influence/impact of a certain project, policy decision or an implemented practice/mechanism. The case study should have distinctive elements….
The authors wishing to remain anonymous should clearly state this in the document..
For the purpose of processing, we encourage the authors to send the case studies in the Word, Rich text or PDF format..
There is no particular submission deadline for this Call for Case Studies. However, due to possibility for their use as a material for the Regional Summer School in Occupational Health, we encourage their submission by April 2007..
For the first-time writers of a case study, the Team has prepared a more detailed guide with the essentials that have to be covered by the case. For further details please contact us at the e-mail below.
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Contact: For further information or to submit the case study, please contact us at casestudy@studiorum.org.mk.