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Course Materials Examples

We would like to show you the course materials used to teach Occupational Medicine papers through the distance teaching medium. Each DVD course book contains 9 modules of course text and associated readings. The general instructions of section provides administrative instructions and overall description of the purpose of the paper.

Papers overview

For more information on a specific paper click on the links below:

AVMX 715 - Principles of Occupational Medicine
AVMX 716 - Clinical Aspects of Occupational Medicine
AVMX 723 - Managing Occupational Medicine
AVMX 724 - Health and Industry

Essential Readings

In addition to general administrative instructions there is a course of learning laid out in our course text Click here to see the typical course text providing written tutorial material for students to follow as they pursue their learning in a particular topic area. As you can see from this module, attached to the course text is a series of essential readings which are also included in the course book. Click here to see one of the essential readings reproduced in Adobe Acrobat.

Audio Visual Materials

In addition to written materials there are audio visual materials as digital video clips, digital audio files and Powerpoint presentations. Click here to see a Power point presentation linked to the modular course text.

These varied media offer the student the opportunity to learn about particular topics in the most effective teaching possible way. The audio-visual presentations (click to see an example) are provided to you on a DVD to reduce download times as well as ensuring that you have an archive of audio visual and written materials to which you can refer later on without completely filling up the C-drive!

In addition updated readings and other reference materials will be distributed with the weekly diary pages on a regular basis, providing current interest materials, updates and additional materials to added to the portfolio of training resources already available to the student. A list of useful websites provided will also enable the student to remain current with advances in a number of technological areas associated with Aviation Medicine.

Interactive Learning

During your course you will participate in different types of interactive learning activities:

Course Conferences

Regular audio conferences are held during the year. You may participate in the conference either by dialing in from a normal telephone, or by using voice over internet (IP) – VoIP if you have a broadband computer and microphone headset. Further instructions on audio conferencing are available on the OceanBrowser conference support page

Contact with Tutors

You’ll need to have email access as this is one of our primary methods of contact with you. Your course tutors will send out regular “Diary Pages” as the course runs, covering the current study topics.