All right. Welcome. My name is Divine. This is episode 649 of the Divine Intervention Podcast.

And in today's podcast, I'm going to be discussing a topic that I've titled, What is Occupational and Environmental Medicine?

What is Occupational and Environmental Medicine? This is a residency program that almost nobody knows about. You ask medical

students, you ask other physicians like, hey, have you heard of Ahmed? And they say, no, I've never heard

of it before, which is kind of strange, because honestly, it's probably one of the best hitting

gems in all of medicine. It's a great field. It's very good, very intellectually stimulating,

has a lot of flexibility. So I want to talk about it just to increase awareness of this field.

This is actually what I, what I'm training in as well. I'm an occupational and environmental

medicine resident. All right. So let's go ahead and hit through this,

right? So first things first, right, let's get right to it. So what's the length of this training?

Well, the thing is the classic thing for most people is you have one year of preliminary something,

right? So either like one year of internal medicine or one year of transitional year or one year of

prelim surgery or whatever

and then the actual Occmed residency is two years right so kind of like anesthesia where you do

like a year of something like an intern year and then you go into like anesthesia for three years

this one is an intern year and then you go into occupational and environmental medicine for for two

years right and one thing I will probably

mentioned here is that quite a number of people in occupational medicine there are people that

switch out of another field in medicine right and then they move on to occupational environmental

medicine right so so generally as long as you have an intern year then you should be good then you have

two years of residency, right?

There's even this, I believe, is called a complementary pathway where, say, for example,

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