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Competencies in Occupational Health/Health and Work for medical undergraduates


Competency 4 - Maintaining relationship with patients: maintaining trust; professional behaviour

Objective: to ensure the appreciation of the professional position of the OH advisor, employer and employees

AREA OF COMPETENCE:

PERSONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY

  1. Good Medical Practice for Occupational Physicians. December 2001 (Faculty of Occupational Medicine).
  2. Guidance on Ethics for Occupational Physicians - 6th Edition 2006 (Faculty of Occupational Medicine)
  3. GMC - Good Medical Practice
  4. Guidance for Clinical Health Care Workers: Protection Against Infection with Blood-borne Viruses Recommendations of the Expert Advisory Group on AIDS and the Advisory Group on Hepatitis (UK Health Departments)
  5. Firth Cozens J Doctors, their wellbeing and their stress. BMJ 2003 326 (7391): p (670 - 671)

Medical practice brings hazards and risks to the medical practitioner’s own health and safety. It is important that all doctors are aware of their own health and the hazards and risks they might be exposed to in their everyday practice.