The Occupational and Environmental Medicine Information Page
Everything You Need to Know About the Hidden Gem of Medical Specialties
Your one-stop shop for key information about Occupational and Environmental Medicine specialization, training, and board certification
Are you a physician or medical student who is looking for a unique and rewarding specialty that stands out from traditional medical care? Maybe a medical student who wants to learn more about Occupational and Environmental (OEM) residency training options? A practicing physician who is burned out on your chosen specialty and searching for something better? Somebody who heard about OEM from a friend or colleague, but doesn’t know anybody in the specialty and is having a hard time finding helpful information? Regardless of your reason for looking into OEM, you’ve come to the only website dedicated to answering all the key questions you have about the best specialty in medicine.
This site is designed and maintained by practicing OEM physicians to help spread the word about our unique, interesting, and fulfilling specialty.
What is OEM?
Occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) is a board-certified specialty under the American Board of Preventive Medicine that focuses on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of work-related injuries and illnesses. OEM clinicians are experts on both the impact of work on health and the impact of health on work. OEM physicians generally do the following:
- Clinically manage work-related injuries and illnesses
- Work to prevent injury and illness in the workplace
- Reduce the burden to society of workplace disability
- Promote health and wellness among the workforce
- Increase productivity by keeping workers healthy and fit for duty
- Evaluate and mitigate potential threats to health in the environment
- Evaluate the impact to health for both occupational and environmental exposures
- Advise non-medical leadership on ways to improve health in their organization/population
For many reasons, OEM is perhaps the best-kept secret in medicine. With unparalleled diversity of practice and job opportunities, the ability to have an outsized impact by dealing with health at the population level, a favorable work-life balance, and the chance to work toward higher goals than RVU production or encounter numbers, OEM is very appealing among those who are aware of it. The problem for OEM is that many medical students and medical professionals simply are not aware of the specialty, or have difficulty finding essential information about this field of medicine. This site aims to address this issue by providing the most important information about the specialty all in one place, clearly and concisely. See the below links to discover more about OEM.
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