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Addressing the Physician Shortage in Occupational and Environmental Medicine Report of a Study (1991) / Chapter Skim
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Pages 14-16

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... survey of medical school gracluates found that occupational medicine was taken as an elective by only 1.4 percent, the least frequently selected elective reported.79 An MMC survey in 1988 found that only one of 127 medical schools reported having a required course in environmental health, although 100 schools reported that environmental health concepts
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... In one survey of 102 medical schools, only 59 percent reported having even a single faculty member with special interests in occupational medicine.22 In another survey of 127 medical schools only 37 faculty were identified as specializing in occupational medicine. Specialty training in occupational medicine at the graduate level is largely confined to the 29 occupational medicine residency training programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
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... Figure 2. Levels of OEM Physician Expertise Domain I Certification OEM Specialist OEM Clinician Primary Care Physician public health agency full-time faculty research consultation industry clinical faculty consultation community hospital industry practitioner ABPM (OEM)
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