Skin-Deep Sustainability: It is Time for Dermatology Education to Focus on the Environment

Our study findings suggest that the teaching of planetary health and sustainability topics varies widely amongst medical schools. Disappointingly, despite a growing evidence base linking climate change and dermatological conditions, the teaching of dermatology in this context had the joint lowest ‘mean estimated teaching time’ and ‘percentage of courses covering the topic’ when compared with other subject areas (Bevan et al., 2022).