DIP Ep 649: What is Occupational and Environmental Medicine?

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All right. Uh, welcome. My name is Divine. Uh, this is episode six hundred and forty-nine of the Divine Intervention Podcast. And in today's podcast, I'm gonna be, uh, discussing a topic that I've titled, uh, uh, What is Occupational and Environmental Medicine? Uh, what is occupational and environmental medicine? Um, this is a residency program that, um, almost nobody knows about. Uh, you ask medical students, you ask other physicians like, "Hey, have you heard of Occ Med?" And they say, "Uh, no, I've never heard of it before." Uh, which is kinda strange, uh, because honestly, it's probably one of the best hidden gems in all of medicine. Um, it's a, it's a great field. Uh, it's very good, very intellectually stimulating, um, has a lot of flexibility. So I wanna talk about it just to increase awareness of this field. Um, this is actually what I, what I, what I'm training in as well. I'm an occupational and environmental medicine resident. All right. So, um, let's go ahead and, uh, hit, hit through this. Right. So first things first, right? Let's get right to it. Uh, so what's the length of this training? Well, the thing is, the classic thing for most people is, uh, you have one year of preliminary something, right? So either like one year of internal medicine or one year of, uh, transitional year or one year of prelim surgery or whatever. And then the actual re- Occ Med residency is two years. Right. So kinda like anesthesia, where you do like a year of something, like an intern year, and then you go into like anesthesia for three years. Uh, this one is an intern year, and then you go into occupational and environmental medicine for, for two years, right? And one thing I will probably mention