Assessing the Climate Readiness of Physician Education Leaders in Graduate Medical Education.

IF 1.6 Q3 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews Pub Date : 2024-10-15 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.17294/2330-0698.2112
Deborah Simpson, Anne Getzin, Aaron A Levy, Victoria Gillet
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Abstract

Climate change affects patient health through an array of exposures, including increasing heatwaves, extreme weather events, poor air quality, and expanding vector-borne illnesses. Physicians are at the forefront of addressing the health consequences of these exposures with patients, and environmental sustainability has become a priority for health care organizations. Accordingly, climate change and health is becoming a critical area for graduate medical education (GME). As GME leaders design and drive education in residency and fellowship programs, understanding those leaders' baseline knowledge on this topic and its alignment with their organizations' priorities is an essential step in the development of climate and health education programs. A search of existing climate and health knowledge assessments revealed an array of tools, yet most had limited applicability for physicians. We systematically created a brief GME climate and health baseline assessment requiring less than 10 minutes of users' time. The assessment was administered anonymously via an online survey tool to GME leaders at three sponsoring institutions across three states within our health care system. Responses from 115 of 155 individuals (74% response rate) yielded an average 62% correct (standard deviation = 16%) and a score range of 10% to 90%. This baseline assessment identifies GME leaders' knowledge gaps about climate change and its impacts on health, the role of health care organizations in producing planet-warming pollution accelerating climate change, and the prioritization of these issues within our organization.

评估医学研究生教育中医生教育领导者的气候准备情况。
气候变化通过一系列暴露影响患者的健康,包括日益严重的热浪、极端天气事件、空气质量差以及病媒传播疾病的增加。医生站在最前沿,与患者一起应对这些暴露对健康造成的影响,环境的可持续发展已成为医疗机构的首要任务。因此,气候变化与健康正成为医学研究生教育(GME)的一个关键领域。在研究生医学教育领导者设计和推动住院医师和研究员项目教育的过程中,了解这些领导者对这一主题的基本认识及其与组织优先事项的一致性是发展气候与健康教育项目的重要一步。通过对现有气候与健康知识评估的搜索,我们发现了一系列工具,但大多数工具对医生的适用性有限。我们系统地创建了一个简短的通用医学教育气候与健康基线评估,用户只需花费不到 10 分钟的时间。我们通过在线调查工具,以匿名方式对医疗保健系统内三个州的三家主办机构的 GME 领导者进行了评估。155人中有115人(回复率为74%)进行了回复,平均正确率为62%(标准差=16%),得分范围为10%至90%。这项基线评估确定了 GME 领导者在以下方面的知识差距:气候变化及其对健康的影响、医疗机构在造成地球变暖污染加速气候变化中的作用,以及这些问题在我们机构中的优先级。
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Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
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