Does anyone have experience of implementing sustainability into dental education?

Hi everyone!

I am a dentist taking a year out of Oral Surgery specialty training to undertake a fellowship with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare through the HEE Yorkshire and Humber Future Leaders Programme.

I have a keen interest in implementing environmental sustainability into dental training programmes through education, quality improvement projects and curriculum reform and would be very keen to collaborate with like-minded people on this network!

I would be grateful for anyone who has experience in this area of sustainable dentistry to please get in touch - it would be great to hear your ideas/projects get the conversation flowing and to see what opportunities and challenges you faced.

Happy to chat on here or email if you prefer- j.girdler1@nhs.net.

Comments (2)

Eva Visser • 2 years ago

Hi Jenny,

In the Netherlands, the Royal Dutch Dentist Society (KNMT) released the e-book Sustainable Oral Health Practice (in Dutch) this month, which can be found here: https://duurzamepraktijk.knmt.nl/duurzame_mondzorgpraktijk/cover . Furthermore, I know that the dental school in Amsterdam is very active with this. You can reach them at greenacta@gmail.com . Hopefully this will help you!

Kind regards,
Eva

PS. I am not a dentist myself, but have done research on sustainable healthcare in university healthcare programmes in the Netherlands.

Jenny Girdler • 2 years ago

Hi Eva,

Thanks very much for getting in touch and sharing that resource. I find it very useful to learn from what's happening in dental schools around the world and share learning points.

Best wishes, Jenny

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