Faculty of Public Health resources on climate change and health

Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group. Although intended primarily for Public Health Trainees, they are available to everyone at:

June, 2019

Teaching sustainable healthcare in the medical education curricula: Student perspectives

Read our pesrpectives as final year medical students on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into medical education curricula through quality improvement projects.

Medical Teacher

July, 2019

Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for wides

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

AOMRC quality improvement curriculum - includes sustainable healthcare

Very excitingly, the AOMRC has finally published its report, "Training for better outcomes: Developing quality improvement into practice", including a QI curriculum which embeds sustainable healthcare principles and sustainable value.

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

June, 2019

CAPE Climate Toolkit for Health Professionals

I'm sharing this great toolkit which has been put together by CAPE (the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) and published recen

Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocatin

NMC Future Midwife consultation response

Just to let people know, the Nursing and Midwifery Council's is developing new standards for midwifery education and practice.

HEART: a student-led initiative to include climate change into medical school curricula

HEART (Health and Environment Adaptive Task force) is an organisation established to raise awareness of, and create curricula to address, climate c

Climate advocacy networking

Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected.

Resolution on integrating climate and environmental health into medical education in the US

Illinois State Medical Society have accepted a resolution to integrate climate and environmental health into medical education!!

Anyone going to ASME 2019?

Hi, is anyone on SHE planning to be at the ASME conference in Glasgow in July? It would be good to link up.

Best wishes, Frances

Glove Awareness resources

RCN resources to use in your workplace to raise awareness of appropriate glove use - these include a poster, a leaflet and a selfie board. The resources can be used in any way that fits in with your local practice or organisational activity.

Royal College of Nursing

April, 2019

US medical student editorial on climate change in the curriculum

"There are at least three major ways that climate change will affect the practice of medicine and for which medical education must prepare future p

Future leaders for sustainability and health?..

https://www.britishcouncil.org/future-leaders-connect/apply

A new role for anaesthetists in environmentally sustainable healthcare?

Our article published today! "The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change. We believe that this places anaesthetists in an ideal position to lead educational initiatives on environmental sustainability."

C. L. Shelton, S. C. McBain, F. Mortimer, S. M. White. Anaesthesia.

March, 2019

University of Brighton Sustainability Conference - programme, abstracts and registration info

The University of Brighton School of Health Sciences 5th annua

Grants/bursaries for sustainability books?

Hello,

SHE Commentary in The Lancet Planetary Health

"Sustainable healthcare education: integrating planetary
health into clinical education" (Walpole, Barna, Richardson, Rother) situates the work of the Sustainable Healthcare Education network within The Lancet's new concept of Planetary Health.

January, 2019

Brief intervention for obesity - sustainable healthcare in practice

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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

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

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Faculty of Public Health resources on climate change and health

Resources on climate change and health have been developed by the Faculty of Public Health Sustainable Development Special Interest Group. Although intended primarily for Public Health Trainees, they are available to everyone at:

June, 2019

Teaching sustainable healthcare in the medical education curricula: Student perspectives

Read our pesrpectives as final year medical students on how sustainable healthcare can be incorporated into medical education curricula through quality improvement projects.

Medical Teacher

July, 2019

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

AOMRC quality improvement curriculum - includes sustainable healthcare

Very excitingly, the AOMRC has finally published its report, "Training for better outcomes: Developing quality improvement into practice", including a QI curriculum which embeds sustainable healthcare principles and sustainable value.

Academy of Medical Royal Colleges

June, 2019

Glove Awareness resources

RCN resources to use in your workplace to raise awareness of appropriate glove use - these include a poster, a leaflet and a selfie board. The resources can be used in any way that fits in with your local practice or organisational activity.

Royal College of Nursing

April, 2019

A new role for anaesthetists in environmentally sustainable healthcare?

Our article published today! "The contribution of anaesthesia to the environmental impact of healthcare is significant and visible, but amenable to change. We believe that this places anaesthetists in an ideal position to lead educational initiatives on environmental sustainability."

C. L. Shelton, S. C. McBain, F. Mortimer, S. M. White. Anaesthesia.

March, 2019

SHE Commentary in The Lancet Planetary Health

"Sustainable healthcare education: integrating planetary
health into clinical education" (Walpole, Barna, Richardson, Rother) situates the work of the Sustainable Healthcare Education network within The Lancet's new concept of Planetary Health.

January, 2019

Keele case-based teaching resources

Keele University Medical School educators have developed their own cases based around four prominent types of waste within the NHS: food, pharmaceutical, clinical and fuel, which they have given permission to be shared though the SHE network to support sustainable healthcare education elsewhere.

Dr. Cliff Shelton, Keele University Medical School

September, 2018

Exciting new teaching resource available!

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education (GCCHE)

September, 2018

RCP video on NHS environmental impact

Short animation to raise awareness of the NHS contribution to environmental issues such as climate change and air pollution, and encourage health professionals to look for environmentally friendly ways to practise.

Royal College of Physicians

September, 2018

Pages

Doctors call for nonviolent direct action over climate crisis

"More than 1,000 doctors including 40 professors, several eminent public health figures and past presidents of royal colleges are calling for wides

CAPE Climate Toolkit for Health Professionals

I'm sharing this great toolkit which has been put together by CAPE (the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment) and published recen

Simon Stevens shores up public health provision; implications for Sustainable Healthcare

As reported in this weeks' BMJ, Simon Stevens, has said that the NHS will commission public services in areas where local authorities are allocatin

NMC Future Midwife consultation response

Just to let people know, the Nursing and Midwifery Council's is developing new standards for midwifery education and practice.

HEART: a student-led initiative to include climate change into medical school curricula

HEART (Health and Environment Adaptive Task force) is an organisation established to raise awareness of, and create curricula to address, climate c

Climate advocacy networking

Doctors and all health professionals are highly respected.

Resolution on integrating climate and environmental health into medical education in the US

Illinois State Medical Society have accepted a resolution to integrate climate and environmental health into medical education!!

Anyone going to ASME 2019?

Hi, is anyone on SHE planning to be at the ASME conference in Glasgow in July? It would be good to link up.

Best wishes, Frances

US medical student editorial on climate change in the curriculum

"There are at least three major ways that climate change will affect the practice of medicine and for which medical education must prepare future p

Future leaders for sustainability and health?..

https://www.britishcouncil.org/future-leaders-connect/apply

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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