At a glance
ATSDR provides educational resources for healthcare professionals to enhance their competency in the recognition, management, and counseling of patients exposed to environmental hazards. All products are free of charge. Some offer continuing education (CE) credits.
Resources
Web-based summaries and instructional videos on hazardous environmental exposures, including information about sources, routes of exposure, populations at risk, health effects, and evaluation, management, and counseling of exposed patients. Free CE credits are available for some products.
Course designed to increase clinicians’ knowledge of exposures to hazardous substances and to promote the adoption of medical practices that aid in the evaluation and care of potentially exposed patients.
The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units (PEHSU) are funded by ATSDR with partial support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The Public Health Institute serves as the PEHSU National Program Office. PEHSU serve as a national network of experts in the prevention, diagnosis, management, and treatment of health issues that arise from environmental exposures from preconception through adolescence. PEHSU offer a variety of educational resources for health professionals, communities, families, and others on reproductive and children's environmental health.
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For more information about these products, send an email to the Environmental Medicine and Health Systems Intervention Section in ATSDR at envmed@cdc.gov.