Lemery Jay, Sorensen Cecilia, Balbus John, Newman Lee, Davis Christopher, Reno Elaine, Salas Renee, Hynes Emilie Calvello
Department of Emergency Medicine University of Colorado School of Medicine Aurora CO.
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Bethesda MD.
AEM Educ Train. 2019 Apr 1;3(3):233-242. doi: 10.1002/aet2.10323. eCollection 2019 Jul.
The accelerating health impacts of climate change are undermining global health, and the roles of the health sector in addressing the many challenges of climate change are being articulated by governments, multilateral institutions, and professional societies. Given the paucity of physician engagement on this issue to date, there now exists a clear need for health professionals to meet this new challenge with the development and cultivation of new knowledge and skill sets in public health, environmental science, policy, and communication. We describe a novel GME fellowship in climate and health science policy, designed to train a new generation of clinicians to provide the necessary perspective and skills for effective leadership in this field. This fellowship identifies available university resources and leverages external collaborations (government, medical consortiums, affiliate institutions in public health, and environmental science), which we describe as being replicatable to similar training programs of any number of medical specialties and likewise bring meaningful opportunities to their respective training programs and academic departments. The creation of this novel fellowship in climate and health policy provides a roadmap and potential path for similar programs to join us in addressing the defining health issue of this generation and many to follow.
气候变化对健康的影响日益加速，正在损害全球健康，各国政府、多边机构和专业协会纷纷阐明卫生部门在应对气候变化诸多挑战方面的作用。鉴于目前医生在这一问题上的参与度不足，卫生专业人员显然需要通过发展和培养公共卫生、环境科学、政策和沟通方面的新知识和技能来应对这一新挑战。我们描述了一个气候与健康科学政策方面的新型毕业后医学教育奖学金项目，旨在培养新一代临床医生，使其具备在该领域有效发挥领导作用所需的视角和技能。该奖学金项目确定了可用的大学资源，并利用外部合作（政府、医学联盟、公共卫生附属机构和环境科学机构），我们认为这些资源可被复制到任何数量医学专业的类似培训项目中，同样也会给各自的培训项目和学术部门带来有意义的机会。这个气候与健康政策方面新型奖学金项目的设立为类似项目提供了一个路线图和潜在途径，使其能够与我们一道应对这一代及后续许多代人面临的决定性健康问题。
