RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Integrating sustainability into postgraduate medical education
JF Future Healthcare Journal
JO Future Healthc J
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP 102
OP 104
DO 10.7861/fhj.2020-0042
VO 7
IS 2
A1 Vanita Gandhi
A1 Nada Al-Hadithy
A1 Anya Göpfert
A1 Katie Knight
A1 Maria van Hove
A1 Peter Hockey
YR 2020
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/7/2/102.abstract
AB The delivery of healthcare is a major contributor to the climate crisis, with the NHS being the largest public sector contributor of carbon emissions in the UK. Physicians have an important role to play in the fight against climate change through the practice of sustainable healthcare. This involves maintaining the current and future quality of healthcare through balancing environmental, social and financial constraints. To this end, integrating these skills into medical education is crucial. A large number of medical schools have already embedded planetary health and sustainability theory into their curriculum, however, there is no formal sustainability curriculum in postgraduate education and training. This is vital for enabling clinicians to translate sustainability theory taught at undergraduate level into clinical practice. This article proposes which topics should be included in a postgraduate sustainability curriculum and explores various methods that could be used to incorporate these into the current educational framework.