OEM-List

Do you know about the OEM List electronic forum (aka Occ-Env-Med-L or the "used-to-be-Duke List"), now located at the University of North Carolina?

It's a dynamic, daily, e-mail discussion forum of occupational and environmental health topics. The OEM List virtual community is the largest and oldest (13+ years) mail list in occupational and environmental medicine and has immediate reach to over 3800+ addresses in 75 countries.

Discussion is continuous, dynamic and entertaining. It's also (well, almost always) on-topic, professional in content, and civil in tone due to the dutiful monitoring by Robb Campbell, MD, MPH and Katherine Kirkland, DrPH, MPH who took on moderating duties in 2018. Messages are not reviewed prior to posting but the authors of messages that are off topic or not professional in tone receive a private message from Robb or Kathy reminding them of the list's protocol.

Recent topics have included:

Weekly MMWR articles, a whole lot about COVID-19, telemedicine, announcements of webinars, and other topics.

Please accept this message as an invitation to join the discussion. The OEM List is a _free_ (yes, FREE) electronic mail forum coordinated from UNC's School of Public Health for occupational and environmental health worldwide.  These readers are themselves a major source of funding for the forum, by voluntary contributions collected just once a year.

AOEC is the list's major contributor, regarding informational replies, stimulating queries and financial backing. AOEC clinical members were the forum's initial members, and still represent a large focus for the international dialog.

OEM-L's members are diverse across the spectrum of Occupational & Environmental Health.

Options for signing up for the list are based on what we have found subscribers prefer in volume of e-mail. They include:

• Standard sign up for all messages. This option is the easiest for responding to messages. However, there are about 200 messages per month, which although very worthwhile reading (and easily deleted), can prove a bit daunting.
• Signing up for the digest provides a subscription that combines a day's messages into a single mail package, for easy reading. However, it can be challenging to send replies or forward individual messages.
• Designating an OEM-L reader in your group (your practice, your department, your group of close colleagues) to forward only the most pertinent messages among yourselves.
• Signing up for JUST the announcement messages (not the discussion among the readers)
• Designate how you want to sign up and send an email to kkirkland@aoec.org
• Dropping by the archives every few days just to see what's new, but sparing your mailbox the volume of any delivered mail. https://lists.unc.edu/read/?forum=occ-env-med-l Remember, only subscribers can post to the forum actively and engage in the topics of the day.