Are We Teaching the Health Impacts of Climate Change in a Clinically Relevant Way? A Systematic Narrative Review of Biomechanism-Focused Climate Change Learning Outcomes in Medical Curricula

Author: Atul Sharma, Lillian Smyth, Holly Jian, Nicole Vargas, Devin Bowles, and Arnagretta Hunter

Year: 2023

Published in: Medical Teacher

Introducing biomedical approaches to the health impacts of climate change can improve medical student engagement with relevant climate-related issues, improve the development of medical schemas, and minimise displacement into crowded medical curricula. This paper aims to systematically review the medical education curricula related to climate change, with a particular focus on systems-based biomechanisms for the health impacts of climate change. We do this to provide a clear agenda for further development of learning outcomes (LOs) in this area to maximize the clinical applicability of this knowledge.