Environmental Medicine Resources for Healthcare Providers

Resources

• Clinician Briefs and Overviews - Web-based summaries and instructional videos on hazardous environmental exposures, including information about evaluating, managing, and counseling exposed patients.
• Taking an Exposure History - Course designed to increase clinicians' knowledge of exposures to hazardous substances and to promote medical practices that aid in evaluating and caring for exposed patients.
  
• Toxicologic Information for Providers (TIPs) - The TIPs video series provides healthcare professionals with clinical information about environmental hazards and how to address patient exposures. Most videos are only 1-2 minutes long, so clinicians can use them while at work.
• Promoting Environmental Awareness for Community Health - The PEACH infographic provides concise information about pesticide safety to the public. See how you can be exposed to pesticides and how to reduce pesticide exposure.
• Prenatal Assessment of Environmental Risk (PAER) - The six PAER infographics provide concise information to help pregnant women make choices to reduce their exposures to chemicals and other hazards.
• Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) - PEHSU are funded by ATSDR and serve as a national network of experts in preventing, diagnosing, managing, and treating health issues in children coming from environmental exposures. PEHSU offer a variety of educational resources for health professionals, communities, families, and others on reproductive and children's environmental health.