Occupational Medicine - Subcourse - CPRVPL26
Title: Pracovní lékařství - dílčí kurz
Guaranteed by: Department of Occupational and Travel Medicine 3FM CU and UHKV (12-PRAC)
Faculty: Third Faculty of Medicine
Actual: from 2016
Semester: winter
Points: 0
E-Credits: 0
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/0, other [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: Czech
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: doc. MUDr. Evžen Hrnčíř, CSc., MBA
Classification: Medicine > Clinical Disciplines
Examination dates   Schedule   
Annotation -
It is a part of preventive medicine module. The course will inform students about noise, vibration, overloading of locomotory system, dust, ionizing radiation and some chemicals and about their influence on health. Some part of the course will be dedicated to the problems of the travel medicine and assessment of suitability for work from the point of view of health status. The student will be informed about health risks at workplaces and they will visit some factory.
Last update: Hrnčíř Evžen, doc. MUDr., CSc., MBA (06.10.2008)
Aim of the course -

The main task of the subject is to inform students about the hygiene of work and more importantly about the clinical occupational medicine, and to bring the basic information about diseases connected with work notified as occupational diseases. The other task of this subject is to give some information about adverse effects of certain work´s and workplace´s factors of work and workplaces and about problems linked up with travelling abroad.

Last update: Hrnčíř Evžen, doc. MUDr., CSc., MBA (06.10.2008)
Literature -

Stellman, J.M. (ed.): Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, Geneva, International Labour Office, 1998

Central European Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Last update: Hrnčíř Evžen, doc. MUDr., CSc., MBA (06.10.2008)
Teaching methods -

Lectures, seminars, practises, excursions to the factories.

Last update: Hrnčíř Evžen, doc. MUDr., CSc., MBA (03.10.2008)
Requirements to the exam -

Participation in practices.

Last update: Hrnčíř Evžen, doc. MUDr., CSc., MBA (03.10.2008)
Syllabus -

Factors influencing the health status at work: Factors physical, chemical and biological - noise, vibrations, ionizing radiation, overloading, dust, chemicals and infections. Occupational diseases, professional accidents (accidents at work), principles of health care for employees, health risks at workplace, travel medicine, personal protection. Case studies of interesting cases from occupational health practice. Excursion to the chosen factory.

Last update: Hrnčíř Evžen, doc. MUDr., CSc., MBA (06.10.2008)