To be able to assess relevant occupational and environmental triggers of asthma from history and allergy skin prick testing.
To understand the appropriate history, physical findings and investigations of other occupational lung diseases.
To understand means of diagnosing work-related-asthma and to assess measures of asthma severity and disability assessment, from history, physical examination, pulmonary function tests and methacholine challenge tests.
To understand the appropriate use of other challenge tests in asthma, such as workplace challenges and chamber specific challenges.
To understand management of work-related asthma and other occupational lung diseases.
To understand the differential diagnosis of occupational lung diseases and investigation of these other diagnoses.
To understand newer diagnostic modalities such as induced sputum and exhaled nitric oxide.
To participate in clinical research studies of work-related asthma and/or other occupational lung diseases.
To present the results of his/her research in occupational lung disease at local respiratory and occupational medicine rounds and at an international meeting, and to prepare drafts of manuscripts suitable for publication in peer-reviewed journals.
