PRACTICE IN PERSPECTIVE Occupational medicine in Canada in 1996
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Canada presents many anomalies and puzzles in occupational medicine. Research and education in the field have a long and proud history here, and yet the speciality was only formally recognized a decade ago. Responsibility for occupational health and safety is highly decentralized but occupational medicine expertise is concentrated in a few major urban centres. There are not one but two pathways to specialist recognition, both highly regarded professionally. Canada has joined a continental free trade agreement, but has yet to harmonize occupational health and safety standards within the country itself. All of these paradoxes make the field of occupational medicine in Canada unusually complicated and challenging. They also make Canada an interesting case study for innovations — and problems — that arise from its unique circumstances.
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