Occupational Health (Non-Thesis) (Resident) (M.Sc.A.) (46 credits)
Offered by: Occupational Health (Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences)
Degree: Master of Science Applied
Program credit weight: 46
Program Description
A three-term program leading to the degree of Master of Science(Applied) [M.Sc.(A.)] in Occupational Health; Non-Thesis, appropriate for graduates from engineering and basic sciences, physicians, and nurses. Occupational health training includes evaluation of work environments and reduction or elimination of work hazards using prevention and control.
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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 (31 credits)
| Course | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| EPIB 507 | Biostats for Health Sciences. | 3 |
Biostats for Health Sciences. Terms offered: Summer 2025 Basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical, epidemiologic, and other health research. Topics include: methods of describing data, statistical inference for means, statistical inference for proportions, non-parametric statistics, correlation and introduction to linear regression. | ||
| EPIB 601 | Fundamentals of Epidemiology. | 4 |
Fundamentals of Epidemiology. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to epidemiologic concepts and corresponding terms. After an introduction to the history, definition, and purposes of epidemiology, "core" concepts that are relevant in several areas of investigation (e.g., etiologic research, health care research, and community medicine practice) will be presented. | ||
| 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 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 605 | Physical Health Hazards. | 6 |
Physical Health Hazards. Terms offered: this course is not currently offered. Properties, mechanisms of action and health effects of physical agents in the workplace and in the general environment: electromagnetic risks, noise and vibration, ionizing radiation, ventilation and thermal environment. Administrative, engineering and medical control methods, exposure standards and safety measures for these agents. | ||
| 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. | ||