Environmental Medicine Integrating a Missing Element into Medical Education (1995) / Chapter Skim
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. Todays challenge is to help medical students develop the knowledge and skills they will need to deal effectively with environmental health issues in clinical care and public health contexts.
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To help prepare physicians for the emerging awareness of environmental health issues and their roles in addressing them, principles and concepts of environmental health must be taught and continually reinforced throughout undergraduate and postgraduate medical education and training. The committee believes, however, that specifying what should be taught is not as useful as describing what students should know and be able to do at the end of their training.
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As described in this report, instructors should be able to integrate environmental medicine into existing medical school courses and clerkships fairly easily. To ensure the progressive enhancement of competency in environmental medicine in medical education and practice, the committee makes recommendations for the continued funding and expansion of programs that currently support research and training, such as Academic Awards and Center Grants.
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