Events

For the MFOM Part 1, DOccMed and DipOHPrac*, The Occupational Health Academy with SOM presents... MCQ Weekend

THIS IS NOT A LIVE SESSION; THIS IS A RECORDING OF THE 2023 MCQ WEEKEND.

Access to the purchased recording will expire on Monday 10th November 2025

Finding the vast amount of information from your CPD course a lot to take in? Never done occupational health and wondering how you will understand the concepts and pass the exam? Busy with your own personal life and work, and wanting to know the core information to help pass the MCQ exams? If you have any of these queries then why not purchase the very popular MCQ Weekend at The Occupational Health Academy.

Over two days, The Occupational Health Academy will cover the key principles and information for the exam with OH Ethics and Law, Occupational Hygiene, Occupational Medicine and Exam Tips/Past Topics and help you grasp the key concepts to improve your knowledge for the more difficult MCQ exam. Check out some of the reviews on The Occupational Health Academy website to see it's definitely worth it - the Academy boasts some high scoring previous attendees!

Access to the purchased recording will expire on Monday 10th November 2025

Full SOM members receive a 20% discount on the course fee. To receive the discount, please log in to your SOM account before registering and the discount will automatically apply at checkout. To upgrade to full membership from associate/student categories, please email membership@som.org.uk

Non SOM-members can sign up as a full SOM member first and then access the 20% course discount. Join SOM here. If you have any queries, please email membership@som.org.uk

*Could also be utilised for LFOM exam preparation although not specific.

For the DOccMed and DipOHPrac*, The Occupational Health Academy presents... Portfolio Morning
THIS IS NOT A LIVE SESSION; THIS IS A RECORDING OF THE 2023 PORTFOLIO MORNING

Access to the purchased recording will expire on Wednesday 12th November 2025

Struggling to know what workplace to do for the FOM portfolio or which clinical case is reasonable to undertake and analyse? Wondering what information to put in each of the boxes or how to keep your word count down but still keep the relevant information? Want to see examples of high scoring portfolios? Then why not purchase The Occupational Health Academy's Portfolio Morning session recording. 

The Occupational Health Academy's Portfolio Morning will take you through an ideal risk assessment, clinical case and give you ideas for finding a suitable case for your portfolio. You will go through and analyse the FOM portfolio and the type of information needed, whilst also being mindful of its other purpose which is for your Mock Viva and make the latter process easier. The example portfolios and Q&A at the end is a very useful session to get more ideas on what to write. The Occupational Health Academy is here to help you with your exam application & portfolio submission!

Access to the purchased recording will expire on Wednesday 12th November 2025

Full SOM members receive a 20% discount on the course fee. To receive the discount, please log in to your SOM account before registering and the discount will automatically apply at checkout. To upgrade to full membership from associate/student categories, please email membership@som.org.uk 

Non SOM-members can sign up as a full SOM member first and then access the 20% course discount. Join SOM here. If you have any queries, please email membership@som.org.uk

*Could also be utilised for LFOM exam preparation although not specific.

FREE for ALL (please log in on the SOM website first). 

Summary of webinar: 

Introduction - The UK Economy needs older workers, yet half the workforce aged 50-65 leave before retirement. Current local delivery of programmes to reduce inactivity due to ill health often ignore this key group, particularly older female workers. 

Topic areas
•    What are the predictors of job loss for older workers due to health?
•    What are effective proactive in work measures e.g. functional assessment, reasonable adjustments and use of occupational health that supports older workers remain in work?
•    How can employers and managers support older workers return to work after ill health? 
•    What are the particular issues for female older workers e.g. caring definition, culture  

Speakers: Dame Carol Black, Professor Ewan Macdonald, Emma Persand, Centre for Ageing Better 

Attendees
•    ICS leads in England and Scotland, Wales, and NI leads (e.g. Department of Communities)
•    DWP/DHSC work and health unit including Sir Charlie Mayfield review team.
•    Think tanks e.g. Health Foundation
•    Public health leads

Outcomes
•    Understand what works as to interventions for older workers to stay and return to work
•    Guide and influence local delivery e.g. of Work Well Pilots, Trailblazers, Pathfinders and within Public Health teams
•    Improve national policy making related to inactivity due to ill health e.g. for reform of Access to Work and the Mayfield review.
 

FREE for ALL. You will then be sent the joining link.

FREE for ALL (please log in on the SOM website first). 

Summary of webinar: 

This webinar will describe the scope and content of the new book Work, Art and Health: A Journey Through Time which is published to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Society of Occupational Medicine. This beautifully illustrated book will takes readers on an excursion to explore the world of work and its effects on health by exploring works of art from the prehistoric to the present.
Attendees will gain an understanding of how artists in different geographies and using different media have depicted people at work, how art and the world of work have evolved, and how humans have been exposed to varying hazards in different jobs between c.5500BCE and 2021.

 
Speaker bio:
Dr Paul J Nicholson OBE FRCP FFOM DAvMed passed professional examinations in general practice, occupational medicine and aviation medicine while serving in the RAF. He completed occupational medicine specialist training with ICI Chemicals & Polymers on Teesside. He spent most of his career with P&G, as Senior Corporate Medical Adviser UK & Ireland, then Associate Medical Director for the Beauty Care and Health Care Global Business Units in Europe, Middle East and Africa, and finally as a Medical Director for Global Medical Operations. Paul served variously as Group Representative, Secretary and Treasurer of the Teesside and then the North East SOM Groups, an elected member of Council (1993-5), Honorary Assistant Editor of Occupational Medicine (1991-2000), and President of the Society of Occupational Medicine (2000-1). He was elected three times as a board member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, and was appointed clinical lead for the design, development and delivery of standards and accreditation for occupational health services (SEQOHS). For 20 years he was a member of the British Medical Association Occupational Medicine Committee (alternately as SOM or FOM representative, and BMA elected member) and became OMC Chair (2008-16). He was also a member of the BMA London Regional Council (2013-16). He was responsible for two BOHRF systematic reviews – occupational asthma, and occupational contact dermatitis and urticaria. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to occupational medicine. In 2015 he was awarded Fellowship of the BMA. Paul represented his professional bodies on numerous working groups and expert panels and has published more than 185 journal articles, reviews and reports. He retired in 2016, since when he has occupied his time writing, and being chair of a residential management company of more than 400 apartments near the London Eye.
 

FREE for ALL. You will then be sent the joining link.