Evaluating strengths and opportunities for a co-created climate change curriculum: Medical student perspectives.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Medical trainees are front-line workers in our worsening climate and health crisis. A movement is underway to teach medical students essential climate change and health content. Few evaluations of climate and health curricula exist to support ongoing curricular development, innovation, and improvement. This study explores student perspectives on climate change and health content and delivery post-implementation of a climate change and health curriculum that was co-created by students and faculty and integrated across 16 months of pre-clinical coursework at Emory University School of Medicine.

Methods

The authors conducted focus groups with the inaugural cohort of students to receive the climate and health education content at the conclusion of their preclinical

SUBMITTER: Liu I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9638156 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature