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 medical student who wants to learn more about OEM residency training options? A mid-career physician who is burned out on your chosen specialty and is looking for a change? 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 site purpose-built to answer all the important questions you have about the best specialty in medicine.

This site is designed by 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 injury and illness
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 key information about it. This site aims to remedy this by putting the most important information about the specialty all in one place, clearly and concisely. See the below links to learn more.

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

What is OEM?

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