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Main Title Environmental medicine : integrating a missing element into medical education /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Rall, David P.
Pope, Andrew MacPherson
CORP Author Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Curriculum Development in Environmental Medicine.
Publisher National Academy Press,
Year Published 1995
OCLC Number 31489352
ISBN 0309051401
Subjects Curriculum ; Education, Medical--United States ; Environmental health--Case studies ; Environmental Exposure--adverse effects ; Environmental Health--United States ; Environmentally induced diseases--Case studies
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/4795.html
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
Modified
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Status
EIAM  RA565.A2I57 1995 Region 2 Library/New York,NY 05/20/2005
EJEM  RA566.25.E5 1995 OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC 05/10/1996
ELBR REF RA566.25E5 1995 AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 09/27/1997
Collation x, 975 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Notes
"Committee on Curriculum Development in Environmental Medicine, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Institute of Medicine." Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Notes
Definition and scope of environmental medicine -- Role of the physician -- Recent history -- Continuum of roles -- Origin and organization of the report -- Curriculum content -- Components of a curriculum -- Competency-based learning objectives -- Implementation strategies -- Curriculum access points and teaching strategies -- Competencies -- Enhancing faculty awareness -- Some long-term strategies -- Some short-term strategies -- Integrating the curriculum -- Developing faculty -- Continuing education -- Evaluating progress. Changing medical education -- Calls for reform in medical education -- Barriers and opportunities -- Taking an exposure history -- Medical school courses and clerkships: access points for integrating environmental medicine -- Case studies in environmental medicine -- Resources: agencies, organizations, services, references, and tables of environmental health hazards -- Committee and staff biographies.