A network for all those interested in educating health professionals for planetary health: understanding the links between human health and the environment; developing skills for creating a sustainable health service.

Undergraduate essay prize on sustainability and anaesthesia

The Association of Anaesthetists is inviting essays on the topic 'Environmental sustainability: opportunity or cost for anaesthesia?

New report shows link between climate change and human health

New research published in The Lancet medical journal shows that rising temperatures as a result of climate change are already exposing us t

"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing.

Assessment Workshop: How to write questions on sustainable healthcare

Listening to feedback from our members and sustainable healthcare education representatives, we have identified that assessing sustainable healthca

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education

Members of the SHE network may already be aware of the

Summer opportunities survey

The Planetary Health Alliance is working to better assist students (both graduate and undergraduates) find summer internships, field experiences, o

Animation of carbon emissions and healthcare waste

This is a 2 minute animation that brings to life the extent of carbon emissions due to healthcare waste and inappropriate clincal waste segregation

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

Knowledge of and attitudes toward climate change and its effects on health among nursing students: A multi-Arab country study.

I've just come across this 2017 study of nurses' knowledge and opinions in Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq

SHE Masterclass 2018 Review

Bringing Sustainable Healthcare into the Undergraduate Curriculum

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

Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)?

CSH sustainability school

A quick reminder that CSH has its Sustainability School coming up soon!

Simulation Exercises Teaching Clinical Skills and Knowledge of the Health Effects of Climate Change

We describe a clinical-skills based approach to teaching medical and public health students the health effects of climate change. This resource presents eleven simulation exercises used with over 100 students, and reports on the students' work. Students are eager to learn clinica

Warren Lavey, JD, MS, adjunct associate professor at the University of Illinois; Holly Rosencranz, MD, FACP, clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine

September, 2018

Two upcoming SHE workshops

SHE is running 2 practical workshops on sustainable healthcare education this Autumn...

Teaching and Learning on Systems Issues - A Showcase Event

Many global challenges are complex and systemic in nature, yet our universities continue to operate mostly within disciplinary silos.

Exploring the role of education in sustainable occupational therapy

Occupational therapy, with its holistic approach to problem-solving and ability to understand complex contextual factors, is in a position to play

#BookClub

Planetary Health Book Club Discussion

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

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

Climate change and health teaching pack

This half hour video looks at the health effects of climate change in six countries around the world. It is intended to help students in medicine, nursing and public health understand the conditions they will face in their professional lives over the coming few decades.

November, 2016

Browse this Networks's Resources in the Resource Library

Keele case-based teaching resources

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

Royal College of Physicians

September, 2018

Simulation Exercises Teaching Clinical Skills and Knowledge of the Health Effects of Climate Change

Warren Lavey, JD, MS, adjunct associate professor at the University of Illinois; Holly Rosencranz, MD, FACP, clinical associate professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine

September, 2018

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

SHE Network Representative Role Description

Interested in becoming a SHE representative for your university? We are looking for students and staff to join our growing network. This resource is a breakdown of what the role involves and what we are aiming to achieve.

All content  CSH 2016

June, 2018

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

Making Sense of Social Prescription

The University of Westminster has published an excellent explanatory document on social prescription. It's a fantastic end to end resource with explanations of terminology, structures, different types of social prescription, and referral examples.

August, 2017

Internationally relevant learning objectives in SHE: Building an environmentally accountable medical curriculum through international collaboration

Background: Global environmental change is associated with significant health threats. The medical profession can address this challenge through advocacy, health system adaptation and workforce preparedness.

July, 2017

"Evaluation of a collaborative project to develop sustainable healthcare education in eight UK medical schools" Article published

Environmental change poses pressing challenges to public health and calls for profound and far-reaching changes to policy and practice across communities and health systems.

Public Health

July, 2017

Undergraduate essay prize on sustainability and anaesthesia

The Association of Anaesthetists is inviting essays on the topic 'Environmental sustainability: opportunity or cost for anaesthesia?

New report shows link between climate change and human health

New research published in The Lancet medical journal shows that rising temperatures as a result of climate change are already exposing us t

"Can a Whisper become a Roar" A call to action for the healthcare community

"As clinicians we are taught to value evidence based interventions that benefit health and wellbeing.

Assessment Workshop: How to write questions on sustainable healthcare

Listening to feedback from our members and sustainable healthcare education representatives, we have identified that assessing sustainable healthca

Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education

Members of the SHE network may already be aware of the

Summer opportunities survey

The Planetary Health Alliance is working to better assist students (both graduate and undergraduates) find summer internships, field experiences, o

Animation of carbon emissions and healthcare waste

This is a 2 minute animation that brings to life the extent of carbon emissions due to healthcare waste and inappropriate clincal waste segregation

Knowledge of and attitudes toward climate change and its effects on health among nursing students: A multi-Arab country study.

I've just come across this 2017 study of nurses' knowledge and opinions in Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Egypt and Iraq

SHE Masterclass 2018 Review

Bringing Sustainable Healthcare into the Undergraduate Curriculum

Calling all Q members (Health Foundation) with a passion for sustainability

Calling all sustainability friends… are you a Q member (Health Foundation)?

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