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Specialist Services: Fit for Work Occupational Medicine Specialist Services include: • Assessment and advice on work ability and rehabilitation • Investigation of occupational causation of illness or injury (e.g. work-related gradual process injury) • Medical Case Review of complex cases • File opinion of complex cases; where existing medical reports require comment, clarification and specialist opinion • Initial Medical Assessments • Vocational Independence Occupational Assessments • Workplace assessments • Environmental hazard impact assessment • Provision of multidisciplinary rehabilitation programmes Occupational medicine specialists are doctors who specialise in the interaction between health and work. Occupational medicine (now known as occupational and environmental medicine) is the specialty which either considers how health conditions impact on the ability to work, or investigates the potential for work to have a harmful effect on health. Occupational medicine specialists, also known as consultant occupational physicians, have undergone at least four years of specialist training, usually after gaining experience in a more general area of medicine, such as general practice. This broad knowledge base is applied to assess and analyze complex problems and provide recommendations on potential solutions. Whilst they may give specific advice on investigations or treatment, they do not usually treat or prescribe themselves. Their additional medical specialist qualification will be FAFOEM (Fellow of the Australasian Faculty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine) or MFOM (Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine - either of London or Ireland). The Biopsychosocial Model is described further. In contrast to the medical model, the biopsychosocial model considers how symptom development and progression is affected by a combination of biological conditions, psychological factors and social influences.           The Biopsychosocial Model   Contact Fit for Work

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