Type of Program:
Preventive Medicine - Occupational Medicine
Length of Program:
2 years - Academic Phase and Practicum Phase
Current Program Status:
Full Accreditation
Program Director:
Dean Baker, MD, MPH
Overview
The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at UC Irvine's School of Medicine is committed to providing exemplary care for the prevention, evaluation, and treatment of occupational and environmental health conditions.
Our division has the largest practice of board-certified occupational medicine physicians in Orange County and our Center for Occupational and Environmental Health serves as a referral center for the evaluation of occupational and environmental exposures in Southern California.
Division faculty members are nationally and internationally recognized for fostering basic, clinical and translational research in the field of occupational and environmental health. We are experts in environmental epidemiology, toxicology and occupational health issues. Our physicians are also highly skilled at performing medical and fitness evaluations for employees of businesses and organizations.
We also are committed to training physicians and scientists for careers in occupational and environmental health. The Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine has one of the most competitive ACGME-accredited occupational medicine training programs in the country. As part of this program we offer a master's of science degree in environmental toxicology and require our residents to complete a research thesis as part of the residency program. more...
Faculty
Occupational and Environmental Medicine Program
- Dean B. Baker, MD, MPH — Chief
- Wayne Chang, MD, MS
- Bongkyoo Choi, ScD, MPH
- M. Joseph Fedoruk, MD
- Scott Hardy, MD
- Leslie M. Israel, DO, MPH
- Elliott Kornhauser, MD, MBA, MPH
- Ulrike Luderer, MD, PhD, MPH
- Peter L. Schnall, MD, MPH
- Haiou Yang, PhD
Environmental Toxicology Program
Occupational Medicine Residency Program
The Occupational Medicine Residency Program is the core teaching program of the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the School of Medicine at UC Irvine.
Established in 1976, the residency program has graduated more than 55 physicians. They constitute the core of the practicing occupational medicine specialists in Southern California and man are leaders in corporate occupational medicine and public health practice across the region. The residency program's long-term collaboration with occupational medicine practitioners and other programs throughout the area offers a rich source of training experiences and expertise for our residents.
The Occupational and Environmental Medicine residency program benefits from its location in Orange County, a major population center with more than 3 million people, and the greater Southern California area. The program's regional emphasis gives our residents access to training opportunities in Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties.
UC Irvine is strongly committed to the residency program, providing support for program faculty and staff, as well as offices and clinical, teaching and research facilities at the Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH). The residency is also a component of the Southern California Education and Resource Center, which is jointly run by UC Irvine and UCLA, is funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and provides support for resident stipends.
The Occupational Medicine Residency program is designed as a two-year training experience consisting of an academic phase and practicum phase with ongoing core residency training activities. The program does not provide an initial clinical training year. Consequently, entering residents must have completed at least one year in an ACGME-accredited clinical residency program and be licensed to practice medicine in the state of California.
The program also considers candidate physicians who have completed the required clinical training and obtained a master's of Public Health degree or the equivalent from an accredited institution. These residents may be admitted directly into the practicum phase of the program.
Graduate Programs in Environmental Toxicology
UC Irvine's Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine provides training in Environmental Toxicology, culminating with the award of the master's degrees of science or doctor of philosophy degrees in one of two tracks, Environmental Toxicology and Exposure Science and Risk Assessment
The Environmental Toxicology program provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary and appropriate to teach and/or conduct basic and applied research programs in inhalation/pulmonary toxicology, biochemical neurotoxicology, reproductive and developmental toxicology, chemical pathology, toxicokinetics, radiation toxicology, molecular carcinogenesis, exposure sciences and risk assessment.
Toxicology involves the scientific study of the entry, distribution, biotransformation and mechanism of the action of chemical agents that are harmful to the body. The graduate program interprets environmental toxicology as the study of the effects and mechanisms of action of hazardous chemicals in food, air, water and soil in the home, the workplace and the community. It also considers experimentally and theoretically such diverse research problems as:
· New scientific approaches to toxicological evaluation of environmental chemicals such as air and water pollutants, food additives, industrial wastes and agricultural adjuvants at the molecular, cellular and organism levels;
· New approaches to the evaluation of human exposures to environmental chemicals;
· Mechanisms of action in chemical toxicity;
· The molecular pathology of tissue injury in acute toxicity;
· Scientific principles involved in evaluating risks to human health from environmental exposures.
The application deadline is Jan. 15, 2012. Admission offers will be made no later than June 30. The program begins in the fall quarter of 2012.
FOR INFORMATION CONTACT [top]
Dean Baker MD, MPH
Program Director
Center for Occupational and Environmental Health
University of California, Irvine
School of Medicine
5201 California Avenue, Suite 100
Irvine CA 92617
Telephone: 949-824-8641
E-mail:dbaker@uci.edu |
