A peer network to support teaching sustainable healthcare and planetary health: (1) understand the links between human health and the environment; (2) develop skills to bring about a sustainable health service; (3) discuss the duty of a health professional to protect the health of the public in a time of global environmental change.

Exciting opportunity for GP passionate about postgraduate/in practice QI education

The RCGP is currently advertising for a new Clinical Champion role to lead the Quality Improvement Capacity and Knowledge in Primary Care (QUICK) p

Beyond business as usual: Higher education in the era of climate change

The Higher Education Policy Institute is publishing its first ever report on climate change.

SHARE conference - 7 May 2021 online

Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

Global Health Engagement Media

I was invited to teach Year 2 students (Nov 2020) as part of the Global Health Student Selected Component, run by Professor Alison Fiander at Cardiff Medical School.

November, 2020

Student Selected Component: Doctors Against Climate Change

This 7-week teaching program at Brighton and Sussex Medical School allows students to explore the impact of the healthcare industry on the environment. As well as identifying the problems, the course reviews what is currently being done in the country and around the world to find solutions.

November, 2020

Upcoming free event - Remote Consultations: What’s their role in Sustainable Healthcare?

Join us & our inspiring speakers to consider the role of remote consultations and care as part of a sustainable healthcare service and whether

Article: The Unique Role of Medical Students in Catalyzing Climate Change Education

Excellent and very specific article on curriculum re-design at Emory University in the US. Climate and health learning objectives mapped across the pre-clinical medical curriculum.

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

October, 2020

Last days to sign up to our Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare Course

This training course will help health professionals, quality improvement leads and medical students to become carbon literate.

WHO Guidance for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care

Today WHO launches new guidance for climate resilient health systems which places preparing the workforce as one its four main strategies. See page 32/38 for details - I've excerpted the introduction to that section here:

4.1 HEALTH WORKFORCE iNTERVENTiONS

October, 2020

Sustainability in Quality Improvement: 2 days left to sign up

This is an intensive course to introduce health professionals and educators to the concept of ‘sustainable value’ and the ‘SusQI’ frame

Medical Teacher publishes Special Issue on sustainable healthcare!

Medical Teacher is the official journal of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), pub

Three days left to apply for Sustainability Volunteer positions

The closing date for applications for three Sustainblity Volunteer positions at CSH is this Monday 14th September at 9am

Opportunity for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at CSH

A position is available for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education

Great paper published this week in Medical Teacher Journal by SanYuMay Tun.

Introduction to Sustainable Healthcare goes international!

Our first Introduction course was by attended remotely by health professionals from across the UK, Australia and Canada.

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

Planetary Health Report Card - UK recruitment

The Planetary Health Report Card is a medical-student driven initiative designed to inspire medical schools interna

Recording: National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar

This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.

June, 2020

AHP Sustainability Survey: Deadline Extended Until 31st July

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey has 11 questions and should take about 5-15 minutes to complete:

AHP Sustainability Survey: Four Days Left

NHS Improvement's AHP Sustainability Survey is designed to help understand how Allied Health Professionals are addressing sustainability issue

Teaching and learning of sustainable healthcare in the medical education curriculum

Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.

Free downloads are available via the green PDF button on the link below.

Medical Teacher

June, 2019

Sustainable Healthcare Education case studies 2016-17

Case studies from 2016/17 onwards from eight medical and health professional schools in the UK, Brazil and USA.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare & Healthy Planet UK

July, 2018

GMC requires medical schools to teach sustainable healthcare

The GMC's new Outcomes for Graduates 2018 now requires newly-qualified doctors to be able to apply the principles, methods and knowledge of sustain

Sustainability in QI - the time has come!

Health systems are in constant need of improvement - and in some cases total redesign.

Sustainability in Quality improvement - 2 articles

2 papers published in the Future Healthcare Journal put forward a simple approach for incorporating sustainability into mainstream QI methodologies: the ‘SusQI’ framework.

Mortimer F, Isherwood J, Wilkinson A, Pearce M, Kenward C, Vaux E. Future Healthcare Journal, 2018

June, 2018

Vision and Objectives for the Sustainable Healthcare Education network

“All students in health professional degrees are able to explain the relevance of planetary health to human health and healthcare and apply skills for improving the sustainability of healthcare. This knowledge informs the behaviours and activities of health professionals, who promote health by incorporating environmental sustainability in their workplaces and professional roles.”

Sustainability Series: An educational resource on sustainable healthcare specialties

In celebration of our 10th birthday, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare have launched the

Curriculum Resource For Sustainable Healthcare Education

We have put together a resource list and report for health professionals in dentistry, nursing, medicine, and pharmacy who are interested in teachi

Development of a Health Professions Curriculum on Environmental Sustainability and Health

This video outlines the process of developing a health professions curriculum on environmental sustainability and health in the United States.

March, 2017

Sustainability in Quality Improvement learning resources

Sustainability has been recognised as a domain of quality in healthcare, and building it into quality improvement (QI) is a practical way to drive incremental change towards a more ethical, sustainable health system.

Centre for Sustainable Healthcare

March, 2017

Browse this Networks's Resources in the Resource Library

Global Health Engagement Media

I was invited to teach Year 2 students (Nov 2020) as part of the Global Health Student Selected Component, run by Professor Alison Fiander at Cardiff Medical School.

November, 2020

Student Selected Component: Doctors Against Climate Change

November, 2020

Article: The Unique Role of Medical Students in Catalyzing Climate Change Education

Excellent and very specific article on curriculum re-design at Emory University in the US. Climate and health learning objectives mapped across the pre-clinical medical curriculum.

Journal of Medical Education and Curricular Development

October, 2020

WHO Guidance for Climate Resilient and Environmentally Sustainable Health Care

4.1 HEALTH WORKFORCE iNTERVENTiONS

October, 2020

The environmental footprint of health care: a global assessment

Background: Health-care services are necessary for sustaining and improving human wellbeing, yet they have an environmental footprint that contributes to environment-related threats to human health.

July, 2020

Recording: National Allied Health Professions Sustainability Webinar

This is a recording of the AHP Sustainability webinar from June 18th 2020, part of the National Allied Health Professions fornightly webinar series.

June, 2020

Millions of Nurses Call The World To Action #HealthyRecovery

From the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, this a short video (see link below) which accompanies the

May, 2020

Utilizing off-the-shelf LCA methods to develop a ‘triple bottom line’ auditing tool for global cataract surgical services

The cataract surgery audit tool ‘Eyefficiency’ was designed to identify opportunities for sites to minimize the footprint of cataract surgical services and to increase access to cataract surgery for patients worldwide.

May, 2020

Rethinking health professions’ education leadership - Medical Teacher article

Rethinealth professions’ education leadership: Developing ‘eco-ethical’ leaders for a more sustainable world and future

April, 2020

Student Selected Component in Social Accountability - Climate change and health care teaching in a secondary school

3rd year medical students at Sheffield University have a student self selected placement in social accountability, which focusses on the social determinants of health.

June, 2018

Exciting opportunity for GP passionate about postgraduate/in practice QI education

The RCGP is currently advertising for a new Clinical Champion role to lead the Quality Improvement Capacity and Knowledge in Primary Care (QUICK) p

Beyond business as usual: Higher education in the era of climate change

The Higher Education Policy Institute is publishing its first ever report on climate change.

SHARE conference - 7 May 2021 online

Sustainable Healthcare Academic Research and Enterprise

Upcoming free event - Remote Consultations: What’s their role in Sustainable Healthcare?

Join us & our inspiring speakers to consider the role of remote consultations and care as part of a sustainable healthcare service and whether

Last days to sign up to our Carbon Footprinting for Healthcare Course

This training course will help health professionals, quality improvement leads and medical students to become carbon literate.

Sustainability in Quality Improvement: 2 days left to sign up

This is an intensive course to introduce health professionals and educators to the concept of ‘sustainable value’ and the ‘SusQI’ frame

Medical Teacher publishes Special Issue on sustainable healthcare!

Medical Teacher is the official journal of the Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE), pub

Three days left to apply for Sustainability Volunteer positions

The closing date for applications for three Sustainblity Volunteer positions at CSH is this Monday 14th September at 9am

Opportunity for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at CSH

A position is available for an AHP Sustainability Volunteer at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare.

Faculty development and partnership with students to integrate sustainable healthcare into health professions education

Great paper published this week in Medical Teacher Journal by SanYuMay Tun.

Might environmental sustainability renew the teaching of medical ethics?

See this BMJ article by Daniel Sokol, and opportunity for discussion via rapid responses: http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6415/rr-4

SHE SUMMER SCHOOL

SHE SUMMER SCHOOL in UK: please add your thoughts

WHO TO BE INVOLVED:

Medsin, Healthy Planet, CSH, Universities, regional groups

FUNDING:

Who to apply to? Who could host?

WHAT TEACHING:

Students could do papers on how sustainability is relevant to specific specialties

October 25 SHE meeting 20:00-21:00 UK time

Via Google hangout The agenda is as follows. - introductions - goals of the group following on from recent Helsinki discussions - projects in progress (student survey, - other strategies and activities to put in place to work towards our goals - future comms, next meeting

Help Gather a Living List of Sustainability Research Priorities

Living List of Sustainability Research Priorities

Vision for the Sustainable Healthcare Education network (draft)

Please do make changes to the text, if you have edits to make, as well as posting comments underneath.

This is a draft mission statement of the Sustainable Healthcare Education network (SHE), developed by the core SHE team. It incorporates five year goals, but is for review and further discussion and development by network participants.

Sustainable Healthcare Education Network - Mission Statement

International group working on Sustainable Healthcare Education - Next meeting outline

Upcoming October meeting for the SHE international working group - date and time to be confirmed - if you would like to attend please complete this doodle poll and you will be notified of the outcome in due course.

https://doodle.com/poll/vdxnnrccufcr2825

Past Meeting

GMC consultation on the Medical Licensing Assessment - ends 30th April 2017

The GMC is consulting on the Medical Licensing Assessment which will apply to UK medical students, EEA and International graduates and aims “to create a single, objective demonstration that those applying for registration with a licence to practise medicine in the UK can meet a common threshold for safe practice.” (GMC-MLA consultation)

Sharing advice about E-learning about environmental sustainability

There are many existing e-learning resources about environmental sustainability. It could be useful both for learners and for those planning courses if we can develop this list / 'catalogue' of e-resources.

If you have experience of using any of the below, or time to explore them, please add your comments - you can do so by logging in to the Sustainable Healthcare Education network, going to the 'wiki' tab, selecting this wiki, and then clicking on 'edit'.

International group working on Sustainable Healthcare Education

Following a workshop at AMEE 2016, medical educators and students from around the world have been working together to develop approaches to developing and delivering Sustainable Healthcare Education (SHE).

The group includes representatives from Denmark, Brazil, South Africa, Canada and USA. So far, we have:

- worked to further explore the relevance of the SHE core learning objectives (developed in UK consultation by the SHE network) internationally, drawing on outcomes from the workshop, which included international participants

Videos for sustainable healthcare teaching

Please add your recommendations (under the most relevant learning outcome) for short videos or animations to use in sustainable healthcare teaching:

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Teaching and learning of sustainable healthcare in the medical education curriculum

Congratulations and thanks to SanYuMay for this extremely helpful article summarising current knowledge on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into the medical curriculum.

Free downloads are available via the green PDF button on the link below.

Medical Teacher

June, 2019