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National Planetary Health learning objectives for Germany: A steppingstone for medical education to promote transformative change

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 envi...

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Autores principales: Wabnitz, Katharina, Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva-Maria, Asbeck, Franziska, Fellmann, Cara Sophie, Gepp, Sophie, Leberl, Jana, Mezger, Nikolaus Christian Simon, Eichinger, Michael
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10015604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36937826
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1093720
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author Wabnitz, Katharina
Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva-Maria
Asbeck, Franziska
Fellmann, Cara Sophie
Gepp, Sophie
Leberl, Jana
Mezger, Nikolaus Christian Simon
Eichinger, Michael
author_facet Wabnitz, Katharina
Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva-Maria
Asbeck, Franziska
Fellmann, Cara Sophie
Gepp, Sophie
Leberl, Jana
Mezger, Nikolaus Christian Simon
Eichinger, Michael
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description 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 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.
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spelling pubmed-100156042023-03-16 National Planetary Health learning objectives for Germany: A steppingstone for medical education to promote transformative change Wabnitz, Katharina Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva-Maria Asbeck, Franziska Fellmann, Cara Sophie Gepp, Sophie Leberl, Jana Mezger, Nikolaus Christian Simon Eichinger, Michael Front Public Health Public Health 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 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC10015604/ /pubmed/36937826 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1093720 Text en Copyright © 2023 Wabnitz, Schwienhorst-Stich, Asbeck, Fellmann, Gepp, Leberl, Mezger and Eichinger. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Wabnitz, Katharina
Schwienhorst-Stich, Eva-Maria
Asbeck, Franziska
Fellmann, Cara Sophie
Gepp, Sophie
Leberl, Jana
Mezger, Nikolaus Christian Simon
Eichinger, Michael
National Planetary Health learning objectives for Germany: A steppingstone for medical education to promote transformative change
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title_short National Planetary Health learning objectives for Germany: A steppingstone for medical education to promote transformative change
title_sort national planetary health learning objectives for germany: a steppingstone for medical education to promote transformative change
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10015604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36937826
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2022.1093720
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