The Medical Schools Council has published a curriculum for the UK on Education for Sustainable Healthcare. In this lunchtime session, we discussed the challenges and opportunities for ensuring the new curriculum becomes a standard component of medical education, and how it can be adapted and expanded to other areas of practice and postgraduate training.
AGENDA
Education for Sustainable Healthcare: Perspectives and importance of the new curriculum
Dame Parveen Kumar, Ambassador, UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, Co-founder and editor, Kumar and Clark’s Clinical Medicine
Embedding the new curriculum into medical education
Dr SanYuMay Tun, Lead for Education for Sustainable Healthcare, University of Oxford.
Adapting the ESH curriculum for postgraduate training
and other areas of professional practice
Professor Aine Burns, Vice President Education and Training, Royal College of Physicians