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The specialisation in Occupational Medicine lasts four years and is part of the Multiprofessional Occupational Health Teaching Unit. This Unit is comprised of professionals from the team of the Basic Occupational Risk Prevention Unit and includes professionals from Occupational Medicine (nurses specialising in Occupational Health Nursing and medical specialists in Occupational Medicine) along with senior technicians specialising in Work Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics and Applied Psychology.
Occupational Medicine training itinerary
The specialisation in Occupational Medicine includes:
Additionally, you will have the opportunity to train in disciplines you might not yet have had the opportunity to study in depth, such as: Occupational Safety and Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics and Applied Psychosociology.
Also, during your stay:
Other aspects you will develop during your stay:
The specialisation of Occupational Health Nursing lasts for two years. It is integrated into the Occupational Health Multiprofessional Teaching Unit, comprised of Basic Occupational Risk Prevention team professionals, which includes experts in Occupational Medicine (nurse specialists in Occupational Health Nursing and medical specialists in Occupational Health Medicine) and senior technicians specialising in Workplace Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Ergonomics and Applied Psychology.
Occupational Health Nursing training itinerary
The Occupational Health Nursing speciality includes:
During your two years at Vall d’Hebron:
Why specialise at Vall d’Hebron?
Allergology, General Hospital
The Allergology Department treats patients with allergies, a very common pathology that now affects approximately one in four people.
At the Allergology Department, our mission is to provide care for people with allergy-related diseases and to improve their quality of life, in accordance with their needs and wishes. The key to achieving this is comprehensive care. We work hard to provide faster, reliable diagnoses and offer personalised treatments.
The diseases that we treat in our Department include: respiratory allergies (asthma and rhinitis), food allergies, allergy to medications as well as skin diseases, such as hives, atopic dermatitis and contact dermatitis. Often, a patient can present more than one of these diseases or problems, meaning it is important that a single professional be able to assess them jointly.
We also deal with "rare" pathologies, mainly hereditary angioedema, which is a disorder that causes inflammation of the face and the respiratory tract, as well as abdominal cramps; systemic mastocytosis, which is a disease of the blood or haemopathy; eosinophilic oesophagitis, which is an inflammation of the oesophagus wall, and allergies to hymenoptera poisons (insects such as ants, bumble bees, wasps, and others).
At our Department, we work in accordance with the Health Department's Allergy Care Model. As a reference centre in our region, we provide care for complex allergy-related pathologies, which requires appropriate infrastructure to carry out diagnostic risk tests, such as tests for allergies to medication, foods, hymenoptera or occupational respiratory allergy, meaning allergies acquired at work. We also possess the necessary allergies laboratory, with specialist staff and equipment, in order to diagnose allergies.
Tests involving a certain level of risk are carried out at the Day Hospital, where the necessary resources are available to deal with any possible adverse reactions. These tests are mainly used to diagnose allergies to medication.
The Allergology Teaching Unit is led by allergy and immunology professionals from the Internal Medicine Department (General Hospital), and from Paediatric Allergies from the Respiratory Medicine, Cystic Fibrosis and Allergy Department (Maternity and Children's Hospital). The Unit’s healthcare activities are divided into outpatient clinics, the day hospital and medical interconsultations. We were the first to use molecular diagnostics for complex allergic conditions in Catalonia and we are the leading centre for rare disorders such as hereditary angioedema and systemic mastocytosis.
Allergology training itinerary
The Allergology Unit has been training residents since 1982, and is where most heads of allergology divisions in Catalonia did their training.
We attend to outpatients regarding allergic respiratory disease, paying special attention to asthma, complex food allergies, hymenoptera allergies, chronic urticaria, atopic dermatitis, and drug allergies.
The Day Hospital carries out controlled drug exposure tests and chemotherapy and other drug desensitization therapies. The paediatric unit carries out food desensitization therapies. We also deal with hospital consultations on a daily basis.
The unit carries out clinical research in the fields of anaphylaxis, hereditary angioedema, food allergies and chronic urticaria. In terms of experimental research , we offer the opportunity to carry out specific immunoglobulin E and G tests by biochip, and basophil activation tests. Five doctoral theses have been supervised by the Unit and all its staff physicians are qualified Doctors of Medicine.
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