Emerging and Re-Emerging Occupational and Environmental Exposure and Disease and Updates in Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Emerging and Re-Emerging Occupational and Environmental Exposure and Disease and Updates in Occupational and Environmental Medicine is organized by The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Office of Continuing Medical Education and will be held during Mar 08 - 10, 2018 at Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is designed to meet the needs of primary care providers and others engaged in occupational health practice and research including physicians (family physicians, general practitioners, internists, emergency medicine specialists), nurse practitioners and other nursing professionals, as well as physician assistants and industrial hygienists. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 18.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Overview :
This course is presented by the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. It is designed to provide occupational and environmental health professionals and persons from other health-related disciplines with a review and update of current topics in occupational and environmental medicine. The first day of the curriculum will focus on Emerging and Re-Emerging Occupational and Environmental Exposure and Disease. A poster session the evening before will supplement the Environmental Exposure and Disease course content. The second day and final half-day of the course will cover a multi-topic theme: Updates in Occupational and Environmental Health. This course is approved for American Board of Preventive Medicine Maintenance of Certification self-assessment credit and is a comprehensive update for occupational medicine specialists. California Qualified Medical Examiner credit approval is anticipated.

Objectives :
An attendee completing this course will be able to:

• Describe the role of emerging and re-emerging exposures in occupational and environmental health practice;
• Adopt new medical knowledge into preventive activities addressing emerging risk factors and new diseases entities;
• Evaluate scientific data in the field of occupational and environmental medicine;
• Expand the differential diagnosis to incorporate a wider range of environmental and occupational factors in disease processes;
• Improve diagnosis & treatment for selected occupational and environmental conditions;
• Improve management in terms of required regulatory management of specific work-related scenarios;
• Inform the prioritization of clinical care, research, and public health policy.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.