M.Sc.(A) - On Campus
**This program is currently not accepting applicants**
The M.Sc.(A) Occupational Health Sciences (On Campus) program is taken over three full-time terms and is worth 45 credits. Courses (30 credits) are given over the Fall and Winter terms and a Project (15 credits) is taken over the Summer term or the Fall term (depending on the project, further details below).Ìý Additional sessions may be required, depending when the final project is submitted and approved by the Supervisor.Ìý The full-time program (45 credits) must be completed within three years of initial registration.
Required courses:
Fall term
OCCH 602
Occupational Health Practice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: This course analyzes the functions, structure and organization of occupational health programs and services.
Offered by: Occupational Health
- Terms
- Instructors
- Elizabeth Czyziw, Geneviève G Ostiguy
OCCH 612
Principles of Toxicology
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: General principles of toxicology, routes of toxicant entry, human organs as targets of toxic action, adverse effects, time-course of reactions to toxicants. Risk assessment techniques, in vivo-in vitro toxicity models, links between human population observations and animal, cellular and biochemical models.
Offered by: Occupational Health
OCCH 616
Occupational Hygiene
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: An introduction to the principles and practices of industrial hygiene designed to provide the students with the knowledge required to identify health and safety hazards in the workplace.
Offered by: Occupational Health
EPIB 507
Biostats for Health Sciences
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: Basic principles of statistical inference applicable to clinical, epidemiologic, and other health research. Topics include: methods of describing data, statistical inference for means, statistical inference for proportions, non-parametric statistics, correlation and introduction to linear regression.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
- Restriction: Restricted to students registered in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry, Human Nutrition, Medical Residents, and Clinical Fellows.
- Course not opened to students registered in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics programs.
- Due to the intensive nature of this course during the summer session, the standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines do not apply. Add/drop is the third lecture day and withdrawal is the sixth lecture day. The standard add/drop and withdrawal deadlines apply for sections of this course offered during the Fall or Winter semesters.
EPIB 601
Fundamentals of Epidemiology
4 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Epidemiology & Biostatistics: This course aims to provide a comprehensive introduction to epidemiologic concepts and corresponding terms. After an introduction to the history, definition, and purposes of epidemiology, "core" concepts that are relevant in several areas of investigation (e.g., etiologic research, health care research, and community medicine practice) will be presented.
Offered by: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Terms
- Instructors
- Maria-Graciela Hollm-Delgado, Gilles Paradis, Aviane Auguste
Winter term
OCCH 604
Monitoring Occupational Envnmt
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: Principles and practices of environmental and biological monitoring of workplace hazards are addressed. Familiarization with instrumentation and calibration procedures is undertaken. Students learn to identify workplace health hazards, develop effective sampling strategies, use industrial hygiene equipment and interpret results of exposure measurements.
Offered by: Occupational Health
OCCH 605
Physical Health Hazards
6 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: Properties, mechanisms of action and health effects of physical agents in the workplace and in the general environment: electromagnetic risks, noise and vibration, ionizing radiation, ventilation and thermal environment. Administrative, engineering and medical control methods, exposure standards and safety measures for these agents.
Offered by: Occupational Health
- Terms
- Instructors
- Paul Heroux, Jean-Pierre Gauvin, Alain Turcotte
OCCH 608
Biological Hazards
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: Biological hazards and infectious diseases susceptible of being acquired at work and the several preventive and protective measures to be put in place, including airborne, foodborne, vectorborne infectious diseases, bioterrorism, and mold.
Offered by: Occupational Health
OCCH 615
Occupational Safety Practice
3 Credits
Offered in the:
- Fall
- Winter
- Summer
Occupational Health & Hygiene: Principles of safety and loss prevention; incident investigations and analyses, occupational safety management tools; loss recognition; safety standards, guidelines and legislation. Selected topics include: fire prevention; workshop, tool and machine safety; fall protection; laboratory safety; confined space entry; safe work permit systems; and materials handling.
Offered by: Occupational Health
- Terms
- Instructors
- Pietro Gasparrini, Linda Pezzi, Pasqualina Filacchione
Projects will be chosen either from a list supplied by the Department or from suggestions by the students themselves and at that point, the Chair of the M.Sc.(A) Projects will assign a Supervisor. Please note that in most instances no supervisor will be assigned during the Fall and Winter terms. A presentation will be given by the Chair in mid-Winter with details on the project.Ìý The deadlines to submit a project for evaluation (approved by the Supervisor) are July 15th for Fall graduation*, November 1st for Winter graduation and March 1st for Spring graduation. It may be necessary to register for an additional term (Non-Thesis Extension term) if the final project is not approved by the Supervisor after evaluation.
*The majority of students submit their project for Winter graduation as it is difficult to find evaluators to review the project during the Summer.