Clinical
Environmental Medicine deals with the detection, research, diagnostics, therapy
and prevention of health disorders and their risks resulting from human
interaction with the environment. The individual susceptibility and specific
characteristics of complex influences need to be taken into consideration in
order to assess those risks.
Clinical
Environmental Medicine will be taught in the tenth semester of the study
program Human Medicine and is divided into seven lectures á 45 minutes and two
seminars á 2 hours. The content of the lectures encompass, inter alia,
obtaining the environmental-medical history of a patient and implementing
diagnostics, diseases caused by chemical and physical environmental noxae as well as the distinction between
environmental-medical diseases and psychiatric clinical pictures. The subject
of Clinical Environmental Medicine will be completed with the evidence of
achievement in the form of a written exam.