Training for occupational medicine.

The training of occupational physicians has recently undergone profound changes, is still changing, and in the future we may see some of the developments envisaged here. All four of the phases of training are changing: undergraduate, general professional training (basic specialist training), higher specialist training and, finally, continuing education which is maintained throughout professional life. That these separate phases should not be viewed in isolation is not always recognized, particularly by those concerned with the detailed planning of one particular phase.