Mount Sinai School of Medicine Asbestosis Post Graduate Course Booklet

Our plain-English summary of Mount Sinai School of Medicine Asbestosis Post Graduate Course Booklet, by I.J. Selikoff (1970).

The study

• Author: I.J. Selikoff
• Published: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, June 15-18, 1970
• Our copy: from Johns-Manville's own medical library. The article is still under copyright, so we describe it here rather than post it.

In plain English

This document is not a research study. It is a brochure and program announcing a four-day postgraduate course on asbestosis, scheduled for June 15 to 18, 1970, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City under the direction of I. J. Selikoff. Co-sponsors listed were the United States Public Health Service Bureau of Occupational Safety and Health, the American Thoracic Society and the American College of Chest Physicians. The program listed sessions on pulmonary asbestosis, on lung cancer and pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, on non-occupational environmental asbestos-associated disease, and on industrial hygiene. The brochure announced field trips to a Johns-Manville plant in Manville, New Jersey, to insulation construction sites, to the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Quebec, and to the Environmental Sciences Laboratory. The course was intended for physicians and other scientists, registration was to be limited to 50 participants, and the fee was $400. The brochure reports no data, findings or conclusions about asbestos disease.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Design: Course brochure and program (announcement of a postgraduate medical course); not a research study
• Who was studied: Intended audience: physicians and other scientists with responsibilities in pneumoconioses, especially asbestosis. Registration was to be limited to 50 participants. The course was scheduled at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York City, June 15-18, 1970.
• Exposure: No exposure was studied. Scheduled course topics included pulmonary asbestosis, lung cancer, pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma, non-occupational environmental asbestos disease, insulation work in construction, and industrial hygiene.

Topics

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Asbestosis, Lung Cancer, Peritoneal Mesothelioma, Industrial Hygiene, Johns-Manville, Jeffrey Mine.

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