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National Planetary Health learning objectives for Germany: A steppingstone for medical education to promote transformative change
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-306027
- Physicians play an important role in adapting to and mitigating the adverse health effects of the unfolding climate and ecological crises. To fully harness this potential, future physicians need to acquire knowledge, values, skills, and leadership attributes to care for patients presenting with environmental change-related conditions and to initiate and propel transformative change in healthcare and other sectors of society including, but not limited to, the decarbonization of healthcare systems, the transition to renewable energies and thePhysicians play an important role in adapting to and mitigating the adverse health effects of the unfolding climate and ecological crises. To fully harness this potential, future physicians need to acquire knowledge, values, skills, and leadership attributes to care for patients presenting with environmental change-related conditions and to initiate and propel transformative change in healthcare and other sectors of society including, but not limited to, the decarbonization of healthcare systems, the transition to renewable energies and the transformation of transport and food systems. Despite the potential of Planetary Health Education (PHE) to support medical students in becoming agents of change, best-practice examples of mainstreaming PHE in medical curricula remain scarce both in Germany and internationally. The process of revising and updating the Medical Licensing Regulations and the National Competency-based Catalog of Learning Objectives for Medical Education in Germany provided a window of opportunity to address this implementation challenge. In this article, we describe the development and content of national Planetary Health learning objectives for Germany. We anticipate that the learning objectives will stimulate the development and implementation of innovative Planetary Health teaching, learning and exam formats in medical schools and inform similar initiatives in other health professions. The availability of Planetary Health learning objectives in other countries will provide opportunities for cross-country and interdisciplinary exchange of experiences and validation of content, thus supporting the consolidation of Planetary Health learning objectives and the improvement of PHE for all health professionals globally.…
Author: | Katharina Wabnitz, Eva-Maria Schwienhorst-Stich, Franziska Asbeck, Cara Sophie Fellmann, Sophie Gepp, Jana Leberl, Nikolaus Christian Simon Mezger, Michael Eichinger |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-306027 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Medizinische Fakultät / Institut für Medizinische Lehre und Ausbildungsforschung |
Medizinische Fakultät / Institut für Allgemeinmedizin | |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Public Health |
ISSN: | 2296-2565 |
Year of Completion: | 2023 |
Volume: | 10 |
Article Number: | 1093720 |
Source: | Frontiers in Public Health (2023) 10:1093720. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.1093720 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1093720 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 6 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 61 Medizin und Gesundheit / 610 Medizin und Gesundheit |
Tag: | Planetary Health; Planetary Health Education; climate change; curriculum development; education for sustainable healthcare; medical education; transformative education |
Release Date: | 2023/04/24 |
Date of first Publication: | 2023/02/16 |
Open-Access-Publikationsfonds / Förderzeitraum 2022 | |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung 4.0 International |