Enhanced Skills Program: Clinical Environmental Health

This is a one-year program, funded by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, conducted by the Environmental Health Clinic at the university-affiliated Women’s College Hospital, under the auspices of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto.

Patients are referred by physicians from all over the province with complex, chronic, environmentally-linked health problems, and history of each patient’s environmental exposures over his or her lifespan is gathered, as well as his or her chronological and family health. 

Practising Family Physicians may well have enhanced understanding of the complexity of chronic illnesses. The program fine tunes the participants’ diagnostic detective skills and points out practical, systematic ways of addressing multiple factors to improve patients’ health status and quality of life.

In addition to enhanced clinical skills, this program links with public health, occupational health, and primary prevention in the community, and offers academic education and research opportunities.

Program Director:
Dr. Riina Bray BASc, MSc, MD, FCFP, MHSc
Medical Director Environmental Health Clinic, Women's College Hospital 

Length of Program: One Year (52 weeks) - Full Time