Occupational Medicine Activities and Skills: An Empiric Study

描述(由申请人提供)：更好地了解职业健康专业人员的实际活动和他们所使用的具体技能，将有助于改善服务提供，创建基于能力的教育系统，并有效利用教育资源。以职业医学为例，该项目将使用工作抽样技术，并辅之以问卷和重点小组，以确定实际工作活动和所使用的技能。对于工作抽样，参与者将报告一系列15分钟工作样本的活动/任务/任务元素。该项目将包括当地、地区和国家的样本。多方面的参与者招募方法将创建一个基础广泛的样本，包括不是组织成员的自认为是工人护理的医疗提供者。有组织的“指导小组”将指导该项目，协助解释数据，并促进有意义的传播。分析既是描述性的，也是针对具体问题的，例如确定正规教育的影响和评估职业预防医学是一个同质领域还是由不同的分组组成。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Improved understanding of the actual activities of occupational health professionals and the specific skills they utilize will facilitate improving service delivery, creating competency based educational systems, and making effective use of educational resources. Focusing on occupational medicine as an example, the project will use a work sampling technique complemented by questionnaires and focus groups to define the actual work activities and skills used. For work sampling, participants will report activity/ task/ task element for a series of 15 minute work samples. The project will include local, regional, and national samples. Multifaceted participant recruitment methods will create a broad-based sample, including self identified medical providers of worker care who are not members of organizations. Organized "guidance groups" will guide the project, assist interpretation of data, and facilitate meaningful dissemination. Analyses will be both descriptive and address specific questions such as determining the impact of formal education and evaluating whether occupational preventive medicine is a homogeneous field or composed of distinct subgroups.