[Occupational medicine: a discipline in constant evolution among debates, didactic, research, and clinics. Is the white coat still useful?].

Occupational medicine: a discipline in constant evolution among debates, didactics, research and clinics. Is the white coat still usefull? Occupational Medicine is a discipline in constant evolution: due to the changes in the technological processes and the prevention measures adopted, the classical Occupational diseases changed their pictures and new diagnostic problems emerge for the Occupational Physician. This specialist, even if he is more and more involved in preventive activities, cannot neglect a deep clinical preparation. In fact, when the Occupational Physician is involved in the field of health surveillance, he must express fitness evaluations that need careful diagnostic procedures. The debates and inside our discipline and between Occupational Health Physicians and other specialists have allowed to reach high level results in many fields of Occupational Medicine, educational, research, clinics, prevention.