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Integrating climate curricula and getting involved during residency

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Season 2, episode 1
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Pollution and the climate crisis are having enormous impact on the health of our patients. But are we teaching our future physicians how to recognize, manage, or prevent these consequences? Dr. Jake Fox, a third-year internal medicine resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses how he pushed for more education on these issues, and other ways he is trying to make a difference. 

For more information on this podcast, our guests, and additional resources go to: https://www.massgeneral.org/environment-and-health/healthcaresos

  • trainees
  • resiency
  • curriculum
  • graduate medical education
  • climate
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Climate Resources for Health Education (climatehealthed.org)

Medical Students for a Sustainable Future  (https://ms4sf.org/)

Planetary Health Report Card (https://phreportcard.org)

Climate Code Blue  (https://www.climatecodeblue.org/)

Attention Humans Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attention-humans-podcast/id1465326397)

Fox, J., Kuczmarski, T., Hampshire, K., Chang, L. Interviewed on NEJM Clinical Curbsides Podcast: “Climate Change and Health Education” (2022). Featured on NEJM Resident 360 website (https://resident360.nejm.org/curbside-consults/climate-change-health-and-education.)

Harvard Medical School Grand Rounds with John Kerry Sept, 2021  (https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/past-events/sep-9-2021-harvard-medical-grand-rounds/)

Thomas M. Kuczmarski, Jacob Fox, Ethan Katznelson, Durga Thakral, Khin-Kyemon Aung, Emily Moore, Jonathan Eisen, Jonathan E Slutzman, Regina LaRocque, Caren G Solomon, Gregg L Furie, Paul F Dellaripa, Climatizing the internal medicine residency curriculum: A practical guide for integrating the topic of climate and health into resident education,
The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 4, 2021, 100067, ISSN 2667-2782, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2021.100067.

 

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