Environmental Medicine Integrating a Missing Element into Medical Education (1995) / Chapter Skim
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5 Concluding Remarks
5 Concluding Remarks
Pages 52-53
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Of particular concern is the recognition that some environmental agents can produce insidious adverse health effects decades after exposure occurs. For many reasons, including the need to be able to respond appropriately to their patients' concerns about the environment, physicians and other health care providers need to be knowledgeable about the effects of the environment on individual and community health.
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As follow-up to the previous IOM reports in this area, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry requested that the TOM address issues related to enhancing the content of environmental medicine in medical education; additional support was subsequently provided by the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. With the understanding that all medical schools are different and that what is learned is more important than what is taught, the TOM committee responded to its charge by establishing competency-based learning objectives that it felt should apply to all graduating medical students.
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