Education Programs in Occupational Safety and Health

描述（由申请人提供）：普遍定期审议工业卫生方案的目标是培训工业卫生专家，以满足对这些专业人员日益增长的需求，特别是在岛上。 预计这名专业人员将有助于降低波多黎各工人职业伤害和疾病的高发生率。 每年平均登记70，000起新的工伤和职业病案件。 该方案是岛上唯一的工业卫生方案。 该计划还将提供公共卫生学院内的其他学术和继续教育课程。 该计划追求的其他目标包括：作为信息传播，继续教育和咨询服务的本地资源;在这一领域进行应用和基础研究，以促进这一学科的发展;并在岛上发展这一学科的领导作用。 培训计划将是一个研究生课程，学员将被授予工业卫生理学硕士学位。 课程将包括：公共卫生课程19（21）个学分，环境卫生课程10（10）个学分，工业卫生课程29（32）个学分。 五（5）额外的学分可用于选修课程。 培训计划的持续时间为两年（2）。 培训将通过讲座、研讨会、实验室实践、实地实践和研究经验等方式进行。 该计划有三名全职教师和来自环境卫生部和公共卫生学院的几名支持教师。 此外，外部合作者教授课程，并给我们的学生讲课。 将招聘具有自然科学（化学、生物学、物理学、普通科学或工程学）学士学位的博士前培训生。 录取指数用于选择这些候选人。 该指数是根据GPA，GRE或同等成绩（EXADEP），以前的工作经验以及与课程教师的面试计算的。 (Ten（十）每年招收新生。因此，每年将有20名全日制学生参加该计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The UPR Industrial Hygiene Program's goal is to train industrial hygienists for the growing need of these professionals, particularly on the Island. It is expected that this professional will contribute to mitigate the high incidence rate of occupational injuries and illnesses among the Puerto Rican workers. On the average 70,000 new occupational injuries and illnesses cases are registered each year. This program is the only industrial hygiene program on the Island. The program will also offer courses to other academic and continuing education programs within the School of Public Health. Additional goals pursued by the program include: serve as a local resource for information dissemination, continuing education and consulting services; to conduct applied and basic research in this field to contribute to the development of this discipline; and to develop a leadership role in this discipline on the Island. The training program will be a graduate program and the trainees will be granted the degree of Master of Science in Industrial Hygiene. The coursework will include: nineteen (21) credit-hours in public health, ten (10) credit-hours in environmental health and twenty-nine (32) credit-hours in industrial hygiene courses. Five (5) additional credit-hours are available for elective courses. The duration of the training program will be two (2) years. Training will be conducted by means of lectures, seminars, laboratory practices, field practices and research experiences. The Program has three full-time faculty members and several supporting faculty members from the Department of Environmental Health and the School of Public health. In addition, outside collaborators teach courses and give lectures to our students. Trainees will be recruited at the predoctoral level with a bachelor degree in natural sciences (chemistry, biology, physics general science or engineering). An admission index is used to select these candidates. The index is calculated based on the GPA, the GRE or equivalent (EXADEP), previous work experience, and an interview with program faculty. (Ten (10) new students will be admitted each year. Therefore at total of twenty full-time students will be enrolled in the Program each year.