Call to introduce environmental preventive medicine courses to the medical curriculum. An initial experience of an education program at the Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Côte d'Azur

Patrick Fénichel; Emiko Todaka; Ruth A Etzel; Chang-Chuan Chan; Robert Barouki; Nicolas Chevalier; Jean-Baptiste Fini; Kirsten R Poore; Kou Sakabe; Valerie Siroux; Midori Yamamoto; Chisato Mori

doi:10.3389/fmed.2024.1412674

Call to introduce environmental preventive medicine courses to the medical curriculum. An initial experience of an education program at the Faculty of Medicine of Nice, University of Côte d'Azur

Front Med (Lausanne). 2025 Jan 9:11:1412674. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2024.1412674. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Reproduction, University of Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
² Center for Preventive Medical Sciences, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan.
³ Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
⁴ College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
⁵ Inserm UMRS-1124 Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁶ Laboratoire PHYMA, MNHN, UMR 7221, Paris, France.
⁷ Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom.
⁸ Inserm U1209 CNRS UMR 5309 Team of Environmental Epidemiology Applied to the Development and Respiratory, Health Institute for Advanced Biosciences, Université Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, France.

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Keywords: education program; endocrine disruptors; environmental medicine; medical schools; preventive medicine.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. KS was a specially appointed Professor of the Department of Environmental preventive medicine (Yamada Bee Company, Inc.), a corporate endowed course and he received financial support for the research and travel fee to participate at the course.