1. Program schedule

EVENING SESSION - Assessment of fitness for work

Session details

Date:

Time:

7:00pm - 8:15pm (Toronto time)

Location:

Zoom videoconferencing

Didactic presentation by:

Anil Adisesh

Session objectives

At the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  1. Understand and explain the concept of “workability”
  2. Apply functional principles to facilitate “workability”
  3. Outline the types of barriers to return to work and the role of the physician in overcoming them

Session resources

A guide for managing the return to work
A booklet of guidelines to support managers and supervisors in handling return-to-work situations. Source: Canadian Human Rights Commission
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Didactic presentation: Assessment of fitness for work
In this presentation, Dr. Anil Adisesh explains the concept of “workability”, applies functional principles to facilitate “workability”, and outline the types of barriers to return to work and the role of the physician in overcoming them.
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The progressive goal attainment program (PGAP)
The PGAP is an empirically supported intervention that has been shown to reduce disability and contribute to successful return-to-work in individuals suffering from a wide range of debilitating health and mental health conditions. Source: PGAP Works
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UK Management Standards
The UK Health and Safety Executive Management Standards cover six key areas of work design that, if not properly managed, are associated with poor health, lower productivity and increased accident and sickness absence rates. Source: UK Health and Safety Executive
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About presenter

Dr. Anil Adisesh received his medical degrees at the University of Liverpool, UK. He is UK trained in general medicine, with UK accreditation in family medicine and UK specialty accreditation in occupational medicine. 

Adisesh worked as Deputy Chief Medical Officer at the UK Health and Safety Executive national laboratory, Buxton. He was subsequently appointed the inaugural JD Irving Limited, Research Chair in Occupational Medicine at Dalhousie University, and was later Associate Professor and Division Director of Occupational Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He was also Head of the Division of Occupational Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital Toronto.

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