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The Cost of Climate Change

Climate change is described as “the greatest threat to global health in the 21st century” by the World Health Organization (WHO). Climate change increases risk of cardiopulmonary diseases, infectious disease outbreaks, mental health disorders, and adverse birth defects, exacerbating social inequities by disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations and communities of color. Furthermore, more frequent and severe disasters threaten the infrastructure and financial stability of the health system by crippling supply chains, transportation, and power supplies. Thus, it is vital that we prepare students to work within the era of climate change and re-imagine our health system.

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The Gap: What We’re Missing

Health trainees face a gap in understanding, managing, and mitigating the health consequences of climate change. A study assessing American’s understanding of Climate Change and Health found that primary care physicians are the most trusted source for CCH information, yet the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations found that only 15% of international medical schools incorporated CCH principles. Preparing providers to treat patients affected by climate change will require training at numerous levels, and the medical curriculum has yet to adapt accordingly. This stems from lack of faculty content expertise to develop curricula and the absence of a formal curricular framework.

Our Solution

To our knowledge, there is no comprehensive resource available to medical student and residency programs that (1) guides how to implement an undergraduate medical curriculum on climate and health, (2) provides high-quality and expert-reviewed curricular materials that can be integrated into pre-existing residency curricula, and (3) invites interested trainees to build and share new content.

Health professional schools should train providers who can advance evidence-based linkages between environment and health and who can recognize, prevent, and treat disease caused by environmental disruption CRHE gives trainees a lens by which to examine the connections between climate change, health outcomes, and health system functioning. This repository provides accessible, evidence-based resources for health educators to incorporate CCH into health curricula.

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Our Repository

Variety of Resources

Recognizing that institutional needs and preferences vary, the repository will include a wide variety of CCH resources that allow for integration into diverse curricular models. Our materials span organ systems science, health systems science and humanities.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Expert-reviewed climate change and health learning objectives spanning major organ systems, health systems topics, and humanities.

SLIDE DECKS

Short, standardized slide decks on climate-health topics that can be inserted into existing health curricula infrastructure.

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING CASES

Question sets that include climate change and health themes, adaptable to specific schools, and includes facilitator guides.

Our Repository

Threads That Connect Our Content

Throughout our content we pursue three threads

EQUITY & JUSTICE

PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE

GLOBAL HEALTH

We are actively seeking out partnerships and aim for this program to be a central hub through which we can work together to advance climate change and health education in health curricula. We anticipate that each institution will have different curricular preferences, ranging from standalone workshops to elective courses to longitudinal curriculum integration, and in the next phase of this project, plan to work with institutional stakeholders to facilitate successful integration of curricular resources.

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We are thrilled that you are interested in joining this effort. Students and their assigned Faculty Advisor will create Problem Based Learning (PBLs) for preclinical health curricula. Residents and their assigned Faculty Advisor will create a short slide deck on a climate-mediated clinical syndrome. Attendings and Fellows serve as expert reviewers and faculty advisors. Please select next to complete the form and we will be in contact with next steps. Review our Contributor Guide and Orientation Video to get acquainted with our program and materials.
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