Southampton Medical School Climate Change and Sustainability Infusion Project<\/a>, which provided lecturers with content to introduce planetary health and sustainability into their teaching. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cThe project was designed to give small amounts of information about planetary health and sustainability in digestible amounts,\u201d James explained. \u201cMedical students have an enormous amount of work to deal with and the content is dense, so we were very aware that we didn\u2019t want to overwhelm them. However, we know that this is an incredibly important subject and doctors need to be aware of the challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe content needed to be relevant to their future career and provide support and understanding about the link between health, environmental degradation and sustainability. We were really pleased with the response from both students and teaching colleagues. Everyone is really concerned about environmental degradation and sustainability, but they don\u2019t necessarily know how to integrate it into their everyday jobs. People responded really well to the content and were very welcoming of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To maintain the momentum of the Climate Change and Sustainability Infusion Project, James is now a Planetary Health Teaching Fellow for the Faulty. He is working with\u00a0Inna Walker and Kalyanaraman Kumaran to combine sustainability with public and global health to make up the Population and Planetary Health (PPH) theme that will run through all the curricula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Collaborating with lecturers in the Faculty, the amount of planetary health content and teaching in the curriculum across all courses is increasing and James provides two lectures to final year students about sustainability and surgery and healthcare system sustainability and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James said: \u201cWe wanted to continue the success of the first project but embed it further into our curriculum. In their first years, students get exposure to relevant planetary health information which has been integrated into already existing teaching sessions across many different subject areas from nutrition to cardiology to kidney disease. As students\u2019 progress into the more clinical aspects of the course, we have more practical ways in which we teach to help them reflect on how their individual practice could be more sustainable. And then in their final year, I give specific lectures. It\u2019s really rewarding to lead this opportunity for the Faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Faculty has also just submitted its first Planetary Health Report Card, a metric-based tool for evaluating and improving planetary health content in health professional schools. James set up a student group to complete the card showcases good practice and identifies areas for improvement. There are also plans to create a specific Population and Planetary Health module that future cohorts of students will complete has part of their medical degree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
James concluded: \u201cWe are ahead of the curve, not many other medical schools are taking such a proactive approach so it\u2019s great to see us taking an opportunity to modernise our curriculum to include a fast-growing area of medical science and be an early leader in an exciting field.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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