Abstract
Occupational medicine in this country has traditionally been a medical specialty characterized by low prestige, few accredited residencies, with even fewer residents, and a paucity of board-certified specialists practicing in the field. Little, if any, occupational medicine has been taught in the curriculum for medical students. Likewise, training for nurses in prevention and treatment of occupational disease has been almost nonexistent. Programs to develop the industrial hygienist who can recognize, evaluate and design controls for occupational hazards have been few and far between.The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare highlighted the crisis in occupational disease in 1970 by estimating . . .
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