Zheng Shoshana, Rivera Margarin Aisha, Connaughton Peter, Spanjaard Herman, Crispen Reese, Ording Julie, Cloeren Marianne
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda (Dr Zheng); Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Hygiene and Public Health (Dr Rivera Margarin); Executive Committee, IOMSC, Perth, Western Australia (Dr Connaughton); Executive Committee, IOMSC, Halfweg, the Netherlands (Dr Spanjaard); University of Maryland School of Medicine (Mr Crispen, Dr Cloeren), Baltimore, Maryland; and American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Elk Grove Village, Illinois (Ms Ording).
J Occup Environ Med. 2022 Mar 1;64(3):e165-e171. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002433.
To learn how occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) expertise is developed and maintained around the world and to inform strategies for further international development of OEM.
An anonymous survey was conducted of leaders of the 48 member societies (from 43 countries) of the International Occupational Medicine Society Collaborative (IOMSC) to evaluate OEM training, certification, maintenance, and recertification requirements.
OEM physician leaders representing 46 of the 48 IOMSC member societies (95.8%) completed the survey between December 2019 and February 2020. Academic post-graduate and on-the-job training were the most frequent methods for developing OEM expertise, with little use of online coursework and minimal OEM content in medical school in most countries. Occupational medicine board certification usually required graduate specialty training and passing a certification examination, while occupational medicine recertification requirements were uncommon.
The IOMSC is positioned to support the international development of OEM expertise by sharing information on competencies, best practices in medical education curriculum content and examples of OEM specialty certification pathways from different countries.
了解职业与环境医学（OEM）专业知识在全球范围内的发展和维持方式，并为OEM的进一步国际发展提供战略依据。
对国际职业医学协会协作组织（IOMSC）的48个成员协会（来自43个国家）的负责人进行了一项匿名调查，以评估OEM培训、认证、维持和再认证要求。
在2019年12月至2020年2月期间，代表48个IOMSC成员协会中46个协会（95.8%）的OEM医师负责人完成了调查。学术研究生培训和在职培训是培养OEM专业知识最常用的方法，大多数国家很少使用在线课程，医学院校中OEM内容也很少。职业医学委员会认证通常要求研究生专业培训并通过认证考试，而职业医学再认证要求并不常见。
IOMSC有能力通过分享能力信息、医学教育课程内容的最佳实践以及不同国家OEM专业认证途径的示例，来支持OEM专业知识的国际发展。
