Education

a sub topic of Clinical Transformation

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  1. Medical Students, Climate Change And Health

    William Regan, Sarah Owen, Hannah Bakewell, Esther Jackson, Ricardo de Sousa Peixoto & Frances Griffiths, Emergence: Complexity & Organization 14(1), 1-14. Climate change is recognized as a major public health threat. Health care services are major contributors to carbon emissions. Future doctors will make clinical decisions that have consequences for the environment. However, there is no research on the views of future doctors on climate change. In this focus group study with 24 current medical students we explored climate change and health, and the role of future doctors in responding to climate change. Not all students accepted the evidence for climate change although most were aware of the implications (if it were to occur) for health. Most students thought international agreements were needed to reduce carbon emissions. All students considered doctors to be influential in society, but there was no consensus on whether and how doctors should use this influence in relation to climate change.

    from SHEBA on 31 March 2012 | Direct link | Comment on this

  2. Climate change: is Australian rural and remote medical education and training ready for the age of consequences?

    Erica Bell. Conference Paper, presented to the 10th NATIONAL RURAL HEALTH CONFERENCE. This paper aims to explore what Australia should do locally, nationally, and internationally to help ensure rural and remote general practitioners are prepared for a climate-changing world.

    from SHEBA on 17 May 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  3. Linking health and ecology in the medical curriculum

    David J Rapport et al. Environment International, Volume 29, Issues 2-3, June 2003, Pages 353-358. doi:10.1016/S0160-4120(02)00169-1. Curricula in medical schools are responding to these new realities exposing the connections between health and ecology.

    from SHEBA on 03 June 2006 | Direct link | Comment on this

  4. Preparing Australian medical students for climate change

    Green et al. Aust Fam Physician. 2009 Sep;38(9):726-9. Discusses on-going training on the health impacts of climate change for the current and future medical workforce.

    from SHEBA on 01 September 2009 | Direct link | Comment on this

  5. Strange Bed Fellows: Ecosystem Health in the Medical Curriculum

    David J Rapport et al. Ecosystem Health. Volume 7, Issue 3, pages 155–162, September 2001. An account of collaboration between different bodies of knowledge to integrate ecosystem health in the medical curriculum.

    from SHEBA on 24 July 2006 | Direct link | Comment on this