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  • Published on: 9 April 2025
    Many roads can lead to Rome: Communicating occupational and environmental medicine
    • Thomas C Erren, Professor & Chair Institute & Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University of Cologne
    • Other Contributors:
      • Philip Lewis, Senior scientist

    A 2021 survey in France by Lamouroux and colleagues paints a bleak picture of what medical students, residents and graduated physicians think about occupational physicians – namely, negative stereotypes abound [1]. Importantly, though, they also conclude that “Better communication of the functions of [occupational physicians] throughout medical school would improve their image in the medical community.”
    As an institute with teaching modules in occupational medicine (OM) and environmental medicine (EM) for ~400 students in every semester, we ask again and again “how can we inform about OM and EM in medically sound, socially relevant, and memorable ways for students, residents, physicians and, indeed, other stakeholders in public health?” To inform about principles of OM and as an offering for continuing education across medical disciplines, we recently used tongue-in-cheek material in the form of studying Indiana Jones [2, 3].
    In the past, memorable tongue-in-cheek articles haves been used to inform about medicine and epidemiology. Well-known examples include the review of randomized trials of parachute jumps and major trauma [4] and the risk of reverse causation in relation to chocolate consumption and the Nobel Prize [5] in the BMJ and NEJM, respectively. It is difficult to read such examples and then forget them. Teaching medicine with TV series such as “House MD” may also ring a bell as a modern tool for communicating medical details and context [6].
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