Picture this: you walk into a patient’s room with a chief complaint of lower back pain. Straightforward, right? Then the patient casually adds, “It started after I hurt my back at work.”
At work?!
Suddenly, your brain shifts gears. What forms need to be completed? What work restrictions are appropriate? Who needs to be notified? How does this change documentation? The chief complaint is familiar, but the second you hear “at work,” the visit shifts into a whole different lane.
If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. Trust me, we’ve been there too.
It’s uncertainties and doubts like these that led us to create Occupational Medicine Bootcamp.
Occupational medicine shows up across urgent care, primary care, emergency medicine, and beyond. Yet most clinicians receive little to no formal training in managing these visits.
These encounters are different. You’re caring for a patient whose health and job are tightly linked, while also navigating additional documentation and forms, employer communication, and higher medico-legal risk. Terms like OSHA recordables, surveillance exams, audiometry screening, and drug testing are part of everyday occupational medicine, but rarely part of our medical education or residency.
Add to that a declining number of board-certified occupational medicine specialists and a workforce that continues to grow, and the reality becomes clear: injured workers still need care, and they’re coming to you.
Hippo Education’s Occupational Medicine Bootcamp was created to help close this gap and give clinicians a clear, practical foundation for managing occupational medicine cases with confidence.
This is an expert-led, video course designed to meet you where you practice. Whether you’re seeing the occasional injured worker or regularly managing occupational medicine visits, the goal is the same: help you move from “Am I doing this right?” to “I’ve got this.”
Through 40+ expert-led, conversational videos, the course unpacks:
The Practice of Occupational Medicine, where you’ll feel confident setting work restrictions, learning about OSHA recordables, and talking through clinical scenarios
Common work-related injuries and occupational illnesses
Required exams specific to occupational medicine, like fit-for-duty and surveillance exams
Procedures and interpretation unique to occupational medicine, including respirator fit testing and audiometry screening
Each lesson is grounded in conversation and taught by experienced occupational medicine clinicians who share the nuances and pearls that usually take years to learn.
Like everything we build at Hippo Education, this course is designed to be immediately applicable.
Alongside video instruction, Occupational Medicine Bootcamp includes resources you can quickly reference during a busy shift:
Slide decks and written summaries
Printable clinical tables
Workers’ Compensation State Guide
If you’ve ever practiced in more than one state, you already know how dramatically occupational medicine laws can vary. One state uses a single universal form, while another requires condition-specific paperwork. One gives you three business days to submit documentation; another allows ten.
Keeping track of these differences is frustrating, time-consuming, and often unclear, especially in the middle of a busy clinic day.
That’s why this course includes a bonus workers’ compensation state guide covering all 50 states. It breaks down workers’ compensation links, required forms, and state-specific pearls, helping you navigate both federal regulations and local differences with confidence, no matter where you practice.
Once you’ve completed the course, an optional 50-question Occupational Medicine assessment is also available for learners who want to reinforce key concepts and track their progress as they prepare to apply what they’ve learned.
You’ll also earn up to 21.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ as you go for completing the bootcamp and assessment.
You see work-related cases often, and they don’t come with a playbook. Visits to care for workers are not slowing down anytime soon.
Occupational Medicine Bootcamp was built to support you in that work, so the next time a patient says, “I hurt it at work,” you feel prepared, confident, and clear on what comes next.