Occupational Health (Non-Thesis) (Distance) (M.Sc.A.) (45 credits)
Offered by: Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences)
Degree: Master of Science Applied
Program credit weight: 45
Program Description
**This program is currently not accepting applicants.**
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Research Project (15 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| OCCH 699 | Project Occupational Health and Safety. | 15 |
Project Occupational Health and Safety. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Under supervision, the student will identify an issue relevant to occupational health and report on work accomplished (i) to review the present state of knowledge and (ii) to conduct a survey and make recommendations or to devise a study proposal and to carry out a preliminary feasibility study. | ||
Required Courses (30 credits)
Note: Students must pass the Master's Integrative Examination (OCCH 600 Master's Integrative Exam.) before writing their Project.
Each course has a final (proctored) examination at the end of the term.
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| OCCH 600 | Master's Integrative Exam. | 0 |
Master's Integrative Exam. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An examination that must be passed by all Master's candidates in order to continue in the program. | ||
| OCCH 602 | Occupational Health Practice. | 3 |
Occupational Health Practice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course analyzes the functions, structure and organization of occupational health programs and services. | ||
| OCCH 603 | Work and Environment Epidemiology 1. | 3 |
Work and Environment Epidemiology 1. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course provides students with basic knowledge of epidemiology and statistics as applied to occupational health. | ||
| OCCH 604 | Monitoring Occupational Environment. | 3 |
Monitoring Occupational Environment. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Principles and practices of environmental and biological monitoring of workplace hazards are addressed. Familiarization with instrumentation and calibration procedures is undertaken. Students learn to identify workplace health hazards, develop effective sampling strategies, use industrial hygiene equipment and interpret results of exposure measurements. | ||
| OCCH 608 | Biological Hazards. | 3 |
Biological Hazards. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Biological hazards and infectious diseases susceptible of being acquired at work and the several preventive and protective measures to be put in place, including airborne, foodborne, vectorborne infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and mold. | ||
| OCCH 612 | Principles of Toxicology. | 3 |
Principles of Toxicology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. General principles of toxicology, routes of toxicant entry, human organs as targets of toxic action, adverse effects, time-course of reactions to toxicants. Risk assessment techniques, in vivo-in vitro toxicity models, links between human population observations and animal, cellular and biochemical models. | ||
| OCCH 615 | Occupational Safety Practice. | 3 |
Occupational Safety Practice. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Principles of safety and loss prevention; incident investigations and analyses, occupational safety management tools; loss recognition; safety standards, guidelines and legislation. Selected topics include: fire prevention; workshop, tool and machine safety; fall protection; laboratory safety; confined space entry; safe work permit systems; and materials handling. | ||
| OCCH 616 | Occupational Hygiene. | 3 |
Occupational Hygiene. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial hygiene designed to provide the students with the knowledge required to identify health and safety hazards in the workplace. | ||
| OCCH 617 | Occupational Diseases. | 3 |
Occupational Diseases. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Review of occupational health problems structured around target organs: respiratory, musculo-skeletal, skin, cardiovascular, mental disorders and aggressive agents: trauma, physical agents, solvents and metals and infectious agents. Also covered are occupational cancer, conditions associated with hypo-and hyperbaric environments, mutagenicity, teratogenicity and reproduction disorders, pre-employment, period examination and medical activities in the workplace. | ||
| OCCH 624 | Social and Behavioural Aspects - Occupational Health. | 3 |
Social and Behavioural Aspects - Occupational Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course explores the social science of occupational health practice, and describes influences on that practice of recent political, social and economic changes in the workforce and at the workplace; the theory of health promotion; management skills; and evaluation methods. | ||
| OCCH 625 | Work and Environment Epidemiology 2. | 3 |
Work and Environment Epidemiology 2. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Combined with OCCH 608 to prepare students to evaluate the relations between exposure to workplace contaminants and health. The course involves the multidisciplinary analysis of four problems: Work-related cancer; Musculo-skeletal problems; Biological hazards; Chemical intoxication. | ||
| OCCH 626 | Basics: Physical Health Hazards. | 3 |
Basics: Physical Health Hazards. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Basics of hearing conservation, health effects of electromagnetism, ionizing radiation safety and ventilation controls. For each of these agents, basic properties, mechanisms of action, health effects, engineering control methods, exposure standards and safety measures are studied. Basic ventilation strategies for industry are also covered. | ||
| OCCH 627 | Work Physiology and Ergonomics. | 3 |
Work Physiology and Ergonomics. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Provide students with basic knowledge of physiological and psychological work requirements, ergonomic approach to work-related health problems and application of this type of approach to preventive and corrective measures. | ||
| OCCH 630 | Occupational Diseases for OHNS. | 3 |
Occupational Diseases for OHNS. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Designed to meet independent and specific needs of occupational health nurses, it examines potential pathologies in the workplace, and subsequent disease outcomes. Focus is on an evidence-based approach to assessment, nursing diagnosis, appropriate interventions in the identification, management of occupational diseases. Worker screening strategies and disease prevention activities are introduced. | ||
| OCCH 635 | Environmental Risks to Health. | 3 |
Environmental Risks to Health. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Focuses on pathways of exposure from industry to non working populations, on measurement of exposure and observation of effects, modelling and prediction of effects. Identifying, assessing and adapting existing data to predict effects given new exposures is a major theme. Spatial analysis, risk communication and disaster response are covered, too. | ||
On-campus practicum may be held at the discretion of each professor. These sessions are held in Montreal on the McGill University campus. Their aim is to offer students additional specific learning activities. Participation in the practicum is an essential component of the program.