Occupational Medicine Activities and Skills: An Empiric Study

描述（由申请人提供）：提高对职业卫生专业人员的实际活动和他们使用的特定技能的理解，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，该项目将采用工作抽样技术，辅以调查表和焦点小组，确定实际工作活动和使用的技能。对于工作抽样，参与者将为一系列15分钟的工作抽样报告活动/任务/任务元素。该项目将包括地方、地区和国家样本。多方面的参与者招聘方法将创建一个基础广泛的样本，包括自我认定的工人护理医疗提供者，他们不是组织的成员。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。分析将是描述性的，并处理具体问题，例如确定正规教育的影响和评价职业预防医学是一个同质领域还是由不同的子群体组成。

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.