AVME715 Health, Work and Behaviour

Occupational mental health; mental illness and employment; psychological assessment; alcohol and other drugs; shift work and fatigue; occupational accidents; hazard control and safety; manual handling, ergonomics and occupational overuse injury; thermal stress.

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Limited to

MOccMed, MAvMed, MHealSc, PGCertOccMed, PGDipHealSc, PGDipOccMed

Eligibility

Healthcare professionals currently employed, or interested in work, in the aviation medicine industry

Contact

OAMU@otago.ac.nz

More information link

View more information on the Department of Occupational and Aviation Medicine Unit's website

Teaching staff

Course Director: Mark Newson-Smith

Paper Structure

Core paper for the Master of Aviation Medicine (MAvMed) and Master of Health Sciences endorsed in Occupational Medicine (MHealthSc(OccMed))

Teaching Arrangements

This paper is taught in odd years in the first semester. It is a fully distance-taught paper with an optional week-long Professional Visits Programme held at various locations around the world. Where is it this year?

Textbooks

Textbooks are not required for this paper.

Graduate Attributes Emphasised

Global perspective, Interdisciplinary perspective, Lifelong learning, Communication, Critical thinking, Cultural understanding, Ethics, Environmental literacy, Information literacy, Research, Self-motivation, Teamwork, global perspective, lifelong learning, scholarship, communication, critical thinking, self-motivation, teamwork.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes.

Learning Outcomes

The learning outcomes of this paper will coincide with the modules taught; these modules are

• Occupational Epidemiology
• Occupational Biostatic and Critical Appraisal
• Accidents and Hazard and Work
• Occupational Rehabilitation
• Occupational Mental Health and Sickness Absence
• Ergonomics and Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Heat and Cold
• Occupational Toxicology
• Occupational Health Hazards to Other Systems

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