ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND ADVOCACY
Unique opportunity to gain insight into the role of environmental toxins while honing skills to advocate for patients and vulnerable populations. Learn to take environmental histories and understand how environmental medicine is applied in the clinical setting and community. Use the socio-ecological model to frame advocacy. Gain practical experience through online didactic lectures, reading materials, class discussion, reflections and a class presentation
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: MED SC-M 810 , 811 , 812 , and 813 Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2023 Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how various categories of environmental toxicants (including carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens, neurotoxins, and endocrine disrupters) affect human health Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate skill in taking a robust patient history by understanding the potential toxicants in a patient’s environment Audience: Graduate 3. Practice risk communication strategies, simulating patient and population encounters Audience: Graduate 4. Describe why certain populations, including children, pregnant women, the elderly and marginalized populations are more vulnerable to environmental exposure Audience: Graduate 5. Discuss the role and approaches to engaging key stakeholders in environmental justice issues, including consumer/advocacy groups, community organizations, governmental organizations, corporations, and various industries/professions Audience: Graduate 6. Identify credible evidence and appraise scientific literature to address both patient and population-level environmental health issues Audience: Graduate 7. Identify the positive and negative impact of various public policies on environmental justice Audience: Graduate 8. Discuss opportunities for physician advocacy across the social ecological framework to address environmental issues incorporating a systems-thinking lens Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Describe how various categories of environmental toxicants (including carcinogens, mutagens, teratogens, neurotoxins, and endocrine disrupters) affect human health Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate skill in taking a robust patient history by understanding the potential toxicants in a patient’s environment Audience: Graduate 3. Practice risk communication strategies, simulating patient and population encounters Audience: Graduate 4. Describe why certain populations, including children, pregnant women, the elderly and marginalized populations are more vulnerable to environmental exposure Audience: Graduate 5. Discuss the role and approaches to engaging key stakeholders in environmental justice issues, including consumer/advocacy groups, community organizations, governmental organizations, corporations, and various industries/professions Audience: Graduate 6. Identify credible evidence and appraise scientific literature to address both patient and population-level environmental health issues Audience: Graduate 7. Identify the positive and negative impact of various public policies on environmental justice Audience: Graduate 8. Discuss opportunities for physician advocacy across the social ecological framework to address environmental issues incorporating a systems-thinking lens Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027