Physician Training Related to Environmental Hazards near Ash Superfund Sites.

ABSTRACT: Physicians do not receive formal environmental health training in medical schools. The objectives of this study were to provide health care providers with basic environmental medicine training to better advise, treat or refer patients in the community and to observe any differences in the environmental medicine learning gains pre/post- test assessment. To rectify the problem of the lack of physicians' training related to environmental hazards, we conducted an environmental health workshop which targeted physicians living near Health Zone 1, Superfund ash sites. Fifty health care providers from both St. Vincent Family Medicine and Department of Health, Duval County Health Department (DOH-Duval) participated in a pre-test survey before the training and a post-test survey following the traini

SUBMITTER: Becker A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8568049 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature