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CME – Continuing Development Program in Dubai

The next Continuing Medical Education day will be on:

April 11th-12th 2010 New and Emerging Problems in Occupational Health

The Wellington School of Medicine, Otago University, New Zealand and Harvard Medical School Dubai Center Institute for Postgraduate Education & Research (HMSDC) in collaboration proudly offer an occupational medicine CME-approved Continuing Development Program in Dubai. These programmes will add valuable professional training and professional development to occupational medicine specialists, trainees and primary medical care professionals engaged in occupational medicine practice.

A programme of one day seminars will bring together top occupational medical academics and front-line occupational medicine practitioners to focus on a range of key issues. Each seminar will focus on a specific high priority topic area and surrounding issues. Delegates can choose to attend individual seminars or include the ongoing program of CME-CPD meetings which can be used to develop and enhance professional skills in a range of practice areas.

Doctors wanting to train in occupational medicine can also enroll for the Otago distance learning Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine program that has been offered in the Middle East through Dubai since 2007. Completion of the program will entitle delegates to formal certification of CME points. These are required for renewal of medical licenses in the UAE and College/Board MOPS programs in other countries, through HMSDC .

Further information about this can be found on the Conference and Events Ltd website.

Discounted Registration Promotion

To reward your active promotion and participation in the CME Programme, we are introducing a Discounted Registration Promotion scheme. If you refer one person to this seminar you will receive a refund of NZ$65 (approximately US$50). Or if you refer two or more delegates, you will receive an even bigger discount of NZ$100 (approximately US$75).

Further information about this can be found on the Conference and Events Ltd website.

 

CME Past Session Archives

Material from past Continuing Medical Education (CME) sessions is now available. To gain access to this material you will need to apply for a user name and password. Use the links below:

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Welcome to occupationalmedicine.ae

Working with the Harvard Medical School Dubai Center Institute for Postgraduate Education & Research (HMSDC), the Aviation and Occupational Medicine Unit, Wellington School of Medicine University of Otago New Zealand offers occupational medicine education in the Middle East. These Universities have established a Continuing Professional Development Programme for occupational medicine professionals in the wider Middle East, as well as providing Continuing Medical Education, leading to a Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine.

The occupational medicine Continuing Professional Development programme is based on regular one day seminars in Dubai, four days a year. These sessions will bring together occupational medical practitioners and academics from the region, together with current international speakers to provide a forum for best practice education and debate. This also provides excellent opportunities for occupational physicians to network with their colleagues across the region.

The occupational medicine Continuing Medical Education programme is based on Otago University’s internationally recognised Distance Learning programme. Otago University offers a two year, part time distance learning programme leading to a Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine. Students are eligible to enrol from any country in the Middle East region and beyond. Distance learning means that doctors can study for the DipOccMed while continuing to live and work in their normal locations, and absences from work for study are minimal. Course work is conducted through multi media electronic course-books mailed to students on DVD, which is the developed into a portfolio of learning with weekly updates, course handouts, audio conferences (which are recorded and can be re-visited), audio, video and multimedia learning materials. The first foundation year is based on two university papers AVMX 715 – Principles of Occupational Medicine and AVMX 716 – Clinical Aspects of Occupational Medicine

The second advanced year is based on specialist papers AVMX 723 – Managing Occupational Medicine and AVMX 724 – Health and Industry. Papers run from February to June and July to November each year. Papers run from February to June and July to November each year. The first foundation year is based on two university papers AVMX 715 – Principles of Occupational Medicine and AVMX 716 – Clinical Aspects of Occupational Medicine. The second advanced year is based on specialist papers AVMX 723 – Managing Occupational Medicine and AVMX 724 – Health and Industry.

Students are not required to leavef Dubai at any time, and are not required to come to New Zealand at any time. (Although they would be most welcome to see our other work at theWellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand).

The Distance Teaching programme is a well established infrastructure operated co-operatively between the Wellington School of Medicine and Health Sciences and Universities in the region. Otago University’s extensive experience in distance teaching international students is matched by outstanding academic input from its partner universities. All involved tertiary educating organisations have on their staff some of the world’s leading academic lecturers, researchers and thinkers around the world, who will be also involved in the CPD and CME programmes.

Graduates from the Postgraduate Diploma in Occupational Medicine can choose to add four advanced degrees through further study and supervised research, again done at a distance and while remaining in the Middle East. Higher degrees include: