Join me and Andrea D. Furlan MD PhD PM&R with our colleagues who will provide free teaching and bring along any difficult cases for advice from other participants and our faculty. Free CME with ECHO OEM #primarycare #familymedicine

ECHO OEM is back this spring! This program is designed to help primary healthcare providers support patients with return-to-work and occupational health issues.

➡9 Fridays starting May 3 (12-1:30 pm ET)
➡3 Tuesdays, on June 4, 18 & 25 (7-8:15 pm ET)
 echooem.iwh.on.ca

“Three women who were diagnosed with HIV after getting “vampire facial” procedures at an unlicensed New Mexico medical spa are believed to be the first documented cases of people contracting the virus through a cosmetic procedure using needles.” theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Interested in work life balance and a supportive family medicine practice? Consider PEI. If trained in the UK and completed your MRCGP, PEI is an option as well.

Msg me for more information! [email protected]

Just imagine US commuters finally being able to experience British standards of rail travel 😂

A chance to listen to me talk about health systems, implementation science, health equity and moving from evidence to action? You know you want to! 😊

Important occupational issue too, “we can infer that envenoming caused by these snakes is much more a social, economic, and ecological problem than a medical one..” #occmed #occenvmed journals.plos.org/plosntds/artic…

2024 Gairdner Award recipients paved way for revolutions in #cancer treatment, #genomics , and #GlobalHealth , by Ivan Semeniuk Carly Weeks Kelly Grant André Picard theglobeandmail.com/canada/article… via The Globe and Mail Gairdner Foundation

“Wet leaves on the lines” was a euphemism and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with the UK rail network ⬇️ (honestly)

Fascinating story of bats and books but I doubt it’s healthy for the librarians thelancet.com/journals/lance… #occmed #occenvmed

Occupational Mpox in a healthcare worker - open access #occmed #occenvmed

via ⁦The New York Times⁩ “I couldn’t afford to miss work to see the doctor,” said Savita Dayanand Landge, a sugar-cane worker in her 30s who got a hysterectomy last year because she hoped it would end her need to visit doctors #occmed #occenvmed #publichealth nytimes.com/2024/03/24/wor…

Chrome Yellow cat bbc.com/news/world-asi…
#occenvmed #occmed

Excellent news, great to see the integration of clinical delivery, research and education, drawing on the breadth and depth of specialty expertise.
#occenvmed #occmed

“We identified MERS-CoV S1 IgG reactivity (ODR >0.2) in 7/48 (14.6%) of Isiolo [Dromedary camel] abattoir workers. A control cohort (n = 12) with no history of camel exposure showed no MERS-CoV S1 IgG reactivity (0/12; 0%)” #occupationaldisease #occmed #occenvmed

Working under the sun causes 1 in 3 non-melanoma skin cancers, according to our latest World Health Organization (WHO)/International Labour Organization Joint Estimates

World Health Organization (WHO)Bulletin news item out today explores actions to tackle this in the informal economy

bit.ly/431ehBI

Reported Methylene chloride spill #occmed #occenvmed

The connection between health conditions not caused by work but that impact on people’s ability to work is also v important. That’s where physicians understanding of how to help people return to work is crucial to patients because it’s why most people are off work ill. #occmed

What causes pulmonary symptoms in #longcovid ? Then answer is in the #lungs , as demonstrated by 129Xe #MRI . There are 4 types of patients and each require different management approaches. More to come...HLI at St Paul's UBC Medicine erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/…

Relevant to #occmed #occenvmed and anyone doing MRO work ⬇️