Medical students are demanding their schools include the climate crisis as a core component of the curriculum, as the intensifying climate emergency highlights the corresponding health crisis. Climate change and its fossil fuel-powered drivers, such as urbanisation and intensive agriculture that encroach on wildlife habitats, are encouraging pathogens to jump from animals into humans. The findings were stark: the scores given for the incorporation of climate change and sustainability in the medical school curriculums ranged from 7% to 74%. “There are some medical schools that don’t even really teach it as an elective,” she said. The majority of schools scored an overall C or thereabouts – suggesting that more focus on climate change and sustainability would be welcome.

Source: The Guardian August 17, 2021 13:28 UTC