Trainees also participate in patient care activities in toxicology consulting clinics, occupational injury management clinics occupational infectious disease prevention services and prevention- oriented clinics specializing in placement and surveillance examinations for workers. Trainees assist faculty to provide corporate toxicology consultations, visiting a variety of manufacturing facilities and other industries. Public health learning opportunities are available in the occupational medicine section and the environmental health section of the North Carolina health department. Our corporate occupational mental health section provides many learning opportunities, including development of expertise in managing substance abuse problems and in managing other at risk employees in collaboration with corporate employee assistance programs. Graduates also receive training which will enable them to assess and manage indoor air quality problems, to design and implement work site wellness programs and to provide occupational injury case management, including rehabilitation services for employees with back pain or upper extremity cumulative trauma disorders.
Residents can go on for a third research training year .
Our interdisciplinary research training year in occupational and environmental epidemiology is done in cooperation with the epidemiology programs at U.N.C. and within the State of NC's Health Department's Environmental Research Section. Fellows in this program participate in ongoing community and population studies. An attorney and several certified industrial hygienists and ergonomists. Learning resources also include a library with extensive holdings and the latest in computerized information technology. Tuition for the MPH or MSPH at UNC-CH is provided.