Implementing and Assessing Climate Change Education in a Pediatrics Residency Curriculum.

ABSTRACT: Background For physicians to effectively combat the growing health crisis that is climate change, they should begin learning during medical training about its health implications. However, there is little data on residents' knowledge of the climate crisis, and even less data regarding the effectiveness and acceptability of climate change education in graduate medical training programs. Objective To incorporate a new educational session on the health implications of climate change into a residency curriculum and evaluate the acceptability of the session and its effects on residents' knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions of the topic. Methods In July 2021, a 90-minute, interactive, small-group format educational session on the health implications of climate change was in

SUBMITTER: McShane M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11644593 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature