Mapping Climate Change and Health into the Medical Curriculum

Co-development of a ‘Planetary Health-Organ System Map’ for Graduate Medical Education

DEA medical students and doctors co-developed a curriculum resource that maps climate change and health to the classically used organ-system teaching structure.

These resources can be used to support new medical school and teaching hospital medical education standards. Specifically Domain 1.15 and Domain 3.10 of the Standards for Assessment and Accreditation of Primary Medical Programs and Outcome Statement 1.5, Domain 2, and EPA 2 (Prescribing) of the AMC National Framework for Prevocational (PGY1 and PGY2) Medical Training.

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Citation: Burch H, Watson B, Simpson G, Beaton L. J, Maxwell J, Winkel K. Mapping climate change and health into the medical curriculum: co-development of a “planetary health-organ system map” for graduate medical education.

Melbourne, Australia: Doctors for the Environment Australia; 2021