Recommended Reading
Part 1 MFOM, Part 2 MFOM, AFOM, DOccMed & DipOHPrac Examinations
Part 1 MFOM, Part 2 MFOM, AFOM, DOccMed and DipOHPrac Examinations
Useful overviews or practical guidance
Pocket Consultant: Occupational Health – 5th edition
Harrington JM, Aw TC, Gardiner K
Wiley-Blackwell, 2006
ISBN: 1405122218
Practical Occupational Medicine – 2nd edition
Seaton A, Agius R
Hodder Arnold, 2005
ISBN: 034075947X
Occupational Health: Management & Practice for Health Practitioners – 4th edition
Eds. Hattingh S and Acutt J
Juta Academic, Feb 2011
ISBN: 0702186740
Oxford Handbook of Occupational Health – 2nd Edition
Eds. Smedley J, Dick F & Sadhra S
OUP Oxford, 2013
ISBN 9780199651627
ABC of Occupational & Environmental Medicine – 3rd Edition
Eds. Snashall D & Patel D
Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
ISBN 0727916114
Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects – 5th edition
Palmer KT, Brown I, Hobson J
Oxford University Press, 2013
ISBN: 0199643245
Fitness to Drive: A Guide for Health Professionals – 1st Edition
Carter T
RSM Books, 2006
ISBN: 1853156519
Assessing Fitness to Drive – A Guide for Medical Professionals
www.gov.uk/government/publications/assessing-fitness-to-drive-a-guide-for-medical-professionals
Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work – 4th edition
Herrie J, Howie R & Semple S
Wiley-Blackwell, 2010
ISBN: 1405159623
Ethics Guidance for Occupational Health Practice – 8th edition (previously entitled Guidance on Ethics for Occupational Physicians) Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 2018
[Available from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, £35.00]
ISBN: 9781527232402
Quality and Audit in Occupational Health
Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 1995
ISBN: 1873240000X
Guidance on Alcohol and Drug Misuse in the Workplace
Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 2006
ISBN: 1860162819
Occupational Health Guidelines for the Management of Low Back Pain at Work Evidence review and recommendations
Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 2000
Out of print – free download available in three parts: pt1, pt2, pt3.
These guidelines have been augmented by the COST B13: European guidelines for the management of low back pain, published in March 2006 as a supplement to the European Spine Journal.
Clinical Testing and Management of Individuals Exposed to Hand Transmitted Vibration: An evidence review
Faculty of Occupational Medicine 2004
[Available from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine]
Good Occupational Medical Practice
Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 2010
[Available from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine]
Reference Texts
Hunter’s Disease of Occupations – 10th edition
Baxter PJ et al
Hodder Arnold, 2010
ISBN: 0340941669
Casarett & Doull’s Toxicology: The Basic Science of Poisons – 8th edition
Klaasen CD
McGraw-Hill Education, 2013
International Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Herzstein et al
Mosby International, St. Louis, USA. 1998
ISBN: 0815143621
Occupational Health Risk Assessment and Management
Sadhra S, Rampal K
Wiley-Blackwell, 1999
ISBN: 0632041994
Epidemiology of Work Related Diseases – 2nd edition
McDonald C
Wiley-Blackwell, 2000
ISBN 9780727914323
Occupational Hygiene – 3rd edition
Harrington and Gardner
Blackwell Publishing, 2005
ISBN: 1405106212
Principles of Health & Safety at Work – 8th edition
St John Holt A
IOSH
ISBN: 9780901357434
Working for a healthier tomorrow – review
Dame Carol Black
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/working-for-a-healthier-tomorrow-work-and-health-in-britain
Is Work Good for Your Health & Well-being?
Waddell G & Burton AK
TSO, Sept 2006
ISBN: 9780117036949
Vocational Rehabilitation – what works, for whom, and when?
Waddell G, Burton AK and Kendall NAS
TSO, July 2008
ISBN: 9780117038615
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/209474/hwwb-vocational-rehabilitation.pdf
Health and Safety Executive Publications
EH40 Occupational Exposure Limits
Health and Safety Executive
The Stationery Office (updated annually)
Essentials of Health and Safety at Work
Health and Safety Executive
The Stationery Office, 2006
ISBN: 9780717661794
All relevant current HSE regulations, guidance, ACOPS etc including HSE ‘six-pack’, RIDDOR, COSHH, noise, lead, ionising radiation, asbestos, etc
British Medical Association Occupational Medicine Committee Publications
Alcohol, drugs and the workplace
Cognitive enhancing drugs and the workplace
BMA calls for strong regulation of e-cigarettes (with the Board of Science)
Other publications
Epidemiology for the Uninitiated – 5th edition
Coggon DNM, Barker D & Rose G
Wiley-Blackwell, 2003
ISBN: 0727916044
An Introduction to Medical Statistics – 4th edition
Bland M
Oxford Medical Publications, 2015
ISBN: 9780199589920
Basic Epidemiology – 2nd edition
Beaglehole R, Bonita R, Kjellström T
WHO, Geneva, Switzerland, 2007
ISBN: 9241547073
Occupational Health Law – 6th edition
Kloss D
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020
ISBN: 1405185905
Medical Statistics: A Textbook for the Health Sciences – 4th edition
Campbell MJ, Machin D, Walters SJ
Wiley and Sons, New York, USA, 2007
DAvMed Examination
Ernsting’s Aviation Medicine – 5th Edition
Gradwell DP, Rainford DJ
CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, 2016
ISBN-13: 978-1-4441-7994-1
Aviation Medicine
Harding RM, Mills FJ
British Medical Journal, 1993
ISBN: 0 7279 0814 6
Aerospace Medicine and Human Performance (Monthly Journal)
Aerospace Medical Association 320 S Henry Street Alexander Virginia USA 22314 – 3579
ISSN: 2375-6314
DDAM Examination
Essential Reading
The Disability Handbook – 2nd edition
Aylward M, Dewis P, Henderson M.
TSO, London 1998
updated version available at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/dhb/
Rehabilitation of the Physically Disabled Adult – 2nd edition
Eds. Goodwill CJ, Chamberlain MA, Evans C
Stanley Thornes, Cheltenham, 1997
Out of print pending new edition
Fitness for Work: The Medical Aspects – 5th edition
Palmer KT, Brown I, Hobson J
Oxford University Press, 2013
ISBN: 0199643245
Fitness to Drive: A Guide for Health Professionals – 1st Edition
Carter T
RSM Books, 2006
ISBN: 1853156519
Assessing Fitness to Drive – A Guide for Medical Professionals
www.gov.uk/government/publications/assessing-fitness-to-drive-a-guide-for-medical-professionals
Orthopaedic Physical Assessment – 6th edition
Magee DJ
WB Saunders, Philadelphia 2014
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995, c50
A Guide for Registered Medical Practitioners (IB204)
BA Corporate Document Services, Leeds – revised Apr 1995
Updated version available at http://www.dwp.gov.uk/medical/guides_detailed.asp#IB204
Any general textbooks of medicine, psychiatry and orthopaedics.
Hutchison’s Clinical Methods
Ed. Swash M
London: Saunders
ISBN 0-7020-2531-3
or
McLeod’s Clinical Examination
Eds. Munro JF, Campbell IW
Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh
ISBN 0-443-06172-6
or
Clinical Examination
Epstein, Perkin, de Bono, Cookson
Mosby, London
ISBN 0-7234-2576-0
Confidentiality
GMC
http://www.gmc-uk.org/guidance/ethical_guidance/confidentiality.asp
Useful Reading
Medical Selection of Life Risks – 5th edition
Brackenridge RDC, Croxson R, Mackenzie R
Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006
Hunter’s Disease of Occupations – 10th edition
Baxter PJ et al
Hodder Arnold, 2010
ISBN: 0340941669
Neurological Rehabilitation – 2nd edition
Ed. Greenwood R
Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 2000
ISBN: 0-8637-7484-9
Guidance on Ethics for Occupational Physicians – 8th edition
Faculty of Occupational Medicine, 2018
[Available from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine]
ISBN: 1860162800
Journals
Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Occupational Medicine
Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
Internet
There is an ever increasing number of informative web sites; any list is likely to become out of date rapidly.
The following are some useful sites at the time of issue:
Faculty of Occupational Medicine www.fom.ac.uk
Society of Occupational Medicine www.som.org.uk
Health and Safety Executive www.hse.gov.uk
UK Government (with search to all UK government sites) www.gov.uk
Occupational and Environmental Medicine (internet version of the journal) oem.bmj.com/
Health, Environment and Work www.agius.com/hew/
Duke Medical School medschool.duke.edu/
BNF Publications www.bnf.org/
