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New Courses Help Medical Students Provide Better Care/Advocate for Health

Three medical schools in Texas are offering elective courses this spring that address climate change and other environmental threats to human health. The courses are being offered at Dell Medical School at The University of Texas at Austin, UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, and the School of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The course at Baylor College of Medicine starts tomorrow, March 11, 2022. The two other courses started earlier this spring. This effort is modeled on and grew out of a course taught at Dell Med starting in 2020 entitled “Environmental Threats to Public Health: What Every Physician Should Know,” an ...