Wheat Stefan, Chekuri Bhargavi, Sorensen Cecilia, Rochford Rosemary, Lemery Jay
Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States.
Climate and Health Program, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, United States.
Front Med (Lausanne). 2022 Dec 20;9:1060145. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1060145. eCollection 2022.
Climate change poses numerous near and long-term challenges for our society, and the human health consequences are increasingly recognized as unprecedented. Responding to these health hazards requires a healthcare workforce composed of climate-informed clinicians. As trusted messengers, physicians play a vital role in informing and preparing the public for health impacts of climate change. We describe an evolving graduate medical education fellowship for physicians from all specialties capable of training leaders in this field. Our program pairs fellows with federal and non-governmental partners to provide expertise in climate policy and empower them to be change agents. The accelerating response to climate change from the federal government coupled with an increased recognition of the impacts of climate hazards on health demands a climate-informed clinical workforce. The expansion of this fellowship to accommodate trainees from multiple specialties and its innovative structure leveraging local and national partnerships sets a standard for how similar programs can be developed in addressing the greatest public health threat and opportunity of the century.
气候变化给我们的社会带来了诸多近期和长期挑战,其对人类健康的影响正日益被视为前所未有的。应对这些健康危害需要一支由了解气候知识的临床医生组成的医疗队伍。作为值得信赖的信息传递者,医生在告知公众气候变化对健康的影响并让公众做好准备方面发挥着至关重要的作用。我们描述了一个为各专业医生设立的不断发展的毕业后医学教育奖学金项目,该项目能够培养该领域的领导者。我们的项目将奖学金获得者与联邦和非政府合作伙伴配对,以提供气候政策方面的专业知识,并使他们有能力成为变革推动者。联邦政府对气候变化的应对加速,加上人们对气候危害对健康的影响的认识不断提高,这就需要一支了解气候知识的临床队伍。该奖学金项目扩大规模以容纳来自多个专业的受训人员,其利用地方和国家合作伙伴关系的创新结构为如何开发类似项目以应对本世纪最大的公共卫生威胁和机遇树立了标准。