http://www.physician.ro/general/comparison-between-the-french-and-the-romanian-occupational-medicine-system/ A Romanian occupational physician's perspective Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.physician.ro/general/comparison-between-the-french-and-the-romanian-occupational-medicine-system/#comment-833 Annet Lenderink Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:04:55 +0000 http://www.physician.ro/general/comparison-between-the-french-and-the-romanian-occupational-medicine-system/#comment-833 Very interesting comparison between the Romanian and French system. I'm from the Netherlands, former occupational physician, now working at the Netherlands Center of Occupational Diseases. I'll tell a little about the Dutch situation: The overall population of the Netherlands: 16,5 million inhabitants, the working population is estimated a bit over 7 million. There are approximately 2000-2200 occupational physicians (The professional society on occupational medicine counts 2150 members). The professional training of OP’s takes four years and there are no general practitioners involved in occupational health. Like in France a big cohort will retire in the next 5-10 years and not too many new occupational physicians start a career in occupational health. In the Dutch occupational health system there are occupational health services (OHS) that have contracts with tens of hundreds employers and there are internal occupational health services in the bigger companies and organizations. These OHS employ occupational physicians, industrial hygienist, safety engineers, organizational psychologists and ergonomists. There is a growing number (250-300) occupational physicians that work freelance for companies. A lot of the working time of the OP is spend on work ability assessment and rehabilitation. Besides that the OP takes up the same tasks as in France and Romania. Maybe more later. Success with your interesting blog Very interesting comparison between the Romanian and French system. I’m from the Netherlands, former occupational physician, now working at the Netherlands Center of Occupational Diseases. I’ll tell a little about the Dutch situation:
The overall population of the Netherlands: 16,5 million inhabitants, the working population is estimated a bit over 7 million.
There are approximately 2000-2200 occupational physicians (The professional society on occupational medicine counts 2150 members).
The professional training of OP’s takes four years and there are no general practitioners involved in occupational health. Like in France a big cohort will retire in the next 5-10 years and not too many new occupational physicians start a career in occupational health.
In the Dutch occupational health system there are occupational health services (OHS) that have contracts with tens of hundreds employers and there are internal occupational health services in the bigger companies and organizations. These OHS employ occupational physicians, industrial hygienist, safety engineers, organizational psychologists and ergonomists. There is a growing number (250-300) occupational physicians that work freelance for companies. A lot of the working time of the OP is spend on work ability assessment and rehabilitation. Besides that the OP takes up the same tasks as in France and Romania.
Maybe more later.
Success with your interesting blog

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