Education
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Introduction
Education covers matters related to medical school education and learning materials for primary care professionals and GPs in training.
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Medical Curriculum
Sustainability and planetary health are increasingly becoming embedded into the medical curriculum. We are working with universities across the country to improve planetary health awareness in medical training.
The Planetary Health Report Card has been completed by over 180 medical schools internationally to benchmark current activity and show areas where improvements could be made. Results are published annually.
RCGP Curriculum
Greener Practice has supported the RCGP to write a Population and Planetary Health Chapter to the GP training curriculum.
Planetary health guide
Greener Practice have worked with Bradford VTS to produce this resource explaining the relationships between planetary health and human health, and our role in this as Doctors. This can be used for GPST education or adapted for other staff members.
GP fellowships
Doctors in their first 5 years after qualifying as a GP may be eligible for a Post-CCT Fellowship, which could be used to support your sustainable healthcare work. There are also national fellowship schemes which are open to those in training and later in their career. The Trailblazer deprivation fellowship also has crossover with sustainability work in deprived areas.
Sustainable Quality Improvement
The concept of Sustainable Quality Improvement (SusQI) was created by the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare. The goal of sustainable quality improvement is to deliver the best possible health outcomes with minimum financial and environmental costs, while adding positive social value. Traditional QI does not consider the environmental impacts, but for long term health of planet and people to be achieved, this is essential.
NetworkPLUS membership of Greener Practice gives you access to many QI projects aimed at achieving Sustainable QI. See Project Library – Greener Practice for some ideas.
Signing up for the Green Impact toolkit for Health will also give a framework for positive steps.
Other special interest groups
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Non-clinical
Covers non-clinical areas such as estates, travel and transport and non-clinical Quality Improvement Projects.
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Nature and communities
Covers nature connectedness, social prescribing in nature, and protecting nature.
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Clinical
Covers clinical aspects of sustainable care including respiratory care, medicines and investigations.
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Education
Covers matters related to medical school education and learning materials for primary care professionals and GPs in training.
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Trainee Forum
This group works as an active forum to support doctors in training; to work with their training scheme to improve planetary health education; and to support each other in a leadership journey in planetary health.