Deep South Occupational Safety & Health Education & Research Center-Supplement

描述（由申请人提供）：农业已被公认为美国最危险的行业之一。农场的危害导致农业社区的死亡率、发病率和残疾率过高，但这部分人口的安全和健康需求在很大程度上得不到满足。为了满足美国东南部的农业安全和健康需求，亚拉巴马大学农村医学学者项目（RSMP）现有硕士学位部分的范围将扩大到包括农业安全和健康（RMSP-AG）。扩大后的计划将整合RMSP的现有农业医药组成部分，包括亚拉巴马大学的安全州OSHA咨询计划和亚拉巴马合作推广系统，以及深南ERC的职业安全和健康教育计划。RMSP-AG将从核心公共卫生课程的基本基础，工业卫生和职业安全和人体工程学的基础上教授农业安全和健康，重点是职业安全和健康跨学科活动，并特别关注农业安全和健康。该课程将涉及为期一年（36个学期加项目）的硕士研究，以培养具有本科和/或研究生科学学术背景的个人，以在学术界，研究和私营企业中追求成功的职业生涯作为农业职业健康和安全专业人员。将RMSP-AG计划纳入深南ERC将导致RMSP-AG学生接触并参与与职业医学，工业卫生，职业健康护理，职业安全和人体工程学学生的跨学科互动，反过来，将补充所有深南ERC学生的培训，为他们提供机会，培养对农业实践的认识，职业医学预计每年有多达6名RMSP-AG毕业生将成为医生，每年约有4名受训人员将利用这一硕士专业化的农业安全和健康，以促进他们现有的职业生涯，如社区卫生护士，人类和环境科学家，农业工程师和农业/推广专家。该方案的长期目标是培养一批医生和农业安全与健康专家，他们将致力于预防农村社区的伤害和疾病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Agriculture has been recognized as one of the most hazardous industries in the U.S. Hazards on farms contribute to excessive mortality, morbidity, and disability among the agricultural community, yet the safety and health needs of this segment of the population go largely unmet. To address the agricultural safety and health needs of the southeast U.S., the scope of the existing master's degree component of the Rural Medical Scholars Program (RSMP) at the University of Alabama will be expanded to include a focus on agricultural safety and health (RMSP-AG). The expanded program will integrate existing agromedicine components of the RMSP, including the Safe State OSHA Consultation Program at the University of Alabama and the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, with the occupational safety and health educational programs of the Deep South ERC. The RMSP-AG will teach agricultural safety and health from a basic foundation of core public health courses, a basis in industrial hygiene and occupational safety and ergonomics with a strong emphasis on occupational safety and health interdisciplinary activities, and a specific focus throughout on agricultural safety and health. This curriculum will involve one-year (36 semester hours plus project) of master's study to prepare individuals with undergraduate and/or graduate science academic backgrounds to pursue successful careers in academia, research and private industry as agricultural occupational health and safety professionals. Inclusion of the RMSP-AG Program in the Deep South ERC will result in RMSP-AG students being exposed to and participating in interdisciplinary interaction with students in occupational medicine, industrial hygiene, occupational health nursing, and occupational safety and ergonomics, and in turn will supplement the training of all Deep South ERC students by providing them with opportunities to develop an awareness of the practice of agricultural and occupational medicine. It is anticipated that as many as 6 RMSP-AG graduates per year will become physicians, and approximately 4 trainees per year will utilize this master's specialization in agricultural safety and health to further their existing careers as community health nurses, human and environmental science scientists, agricultural engineers, and agriculture/extension specialists. The long term goal of this program will be to produce a body of physicians and agriculture safety and health specialists who will dedicate their careers to preventing injuries and disease in the rural community.