The Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine provides elective rotation to medical students. The elective rotation lasts for 6 weeks. Our program takes advantage of close collaboration and interaction with the Graduate Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Health of the College of Public Health. As a result, a total of 14 full time, and 10 adjunct faculty members provide education to medical students.

The rotation include

1. Environmental and Occupational Medicine Clinic: providing training for patient evaluation and clinical judgments
2. Workplace visit and inspection: providing understating of the processes of evaluation of work exposure and their relationship to health outcomes
3. Literature review and reading: providing training on the understanding of environmental and occupational health and medicine literatures
4. Case presentation: once per week, the student is required to report at least one patient history, physical, and evaluation of work-relatedness of the clinical condition
5. Writing up of medical-legal report on occupational diseases under the guidance and supervision of the faculty members
6. Didactic classes: including introduction to common environmental and occupational diseases, workplace evaluation, etc. Some classes are provided by faculty members of the Graduate Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Health
7. Some of the classes in the residency training and the graduate institute are given in English, including an International Environmental and Occupational Health class given by NTU, Japan UOEH, and Singapore National U faculty members through Internet (as attached abstract).