
About this event
- Date and time Thu 10 Jun 2021 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm
- Location Online
- Organised by General Practice with Primary Healthcare, Medicine and Society
This webinar will explore the role of medical education in connection with the climate crisis, health, and healthcare delivery, and how to address areas of improvement in healthcare education.
Expert speakers; Tamara Lucas, Executive Editor, The Lancet, Sir Andrew Haines, Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Sarah Walpole, Infectious diseases registrar, Newcastle Hospitals, Sustainable Healthcare Education Network, and Renee Salas, Lead Author of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief since 2018, Emergency Medicine Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, will identify professional learning needs concerning healthcare, healthcare education and climate change.
This webinar will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.
Topics to be discussed include:
- How medical education can facilitate the role of healthcare professionals in addressing climate change and the effects of climate change on health
- How climate change is taught and learned in under/post-graduate education
- The relevance of climate change as part of medical education and continuous professional development
- Educational needs at the intersection of medicine and climate change and determine how to best advocate for them
- Where and how relevant education resources are provided
CPD learning applied.
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Key speakers

Sir Andrew Haines
Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Sarah Walpole
Infectious Diseases and Medical Registrar (ST4), currently working in Virology at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Speaker's biography
Sarah’s interests include systems thinking and planetary health principles, and their application in healthcare, health leadership and health professional education. She is an active member of the North East of England’s Integrated Care System’s Sustainability Group and leading on a SusQI project to improve respiratory care at Newcastle Hospitals.
Sarah contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate education locally, including integration of planetary health education into the new curriculum at Newcastle Medical School. Sarah has led a number of national and international collaborations in this field. Most recently, she led the development of the Association of Medical Education in Europe’s Consensus Statement on Planetary Health and Sustainable Healthcare Education
Her previous roles have included Clinical Teaching Fellow in Sustainable Healthcare at the University of Leeds, Medical Activities Manager for Medecins Sans Frontiers in Walikale, DRC and Lead Medical Faculty for Doctors Worldwide’s Postgraduate Fellowship in Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. As a medical student, Sarah founded the student group ‘Healthy Planet’ (which advocates and educates about planetary health issues) and became an active member of the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, contributing to the development of the Sustainable Education Network which she later co-directed.
In September 2021, Sarah will be taking up a one-year post as the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow at the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence.
Follow Sarah on social media: @sarahcwalpole

Dr Renee Salas
Lead Author of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief since 2018, Emergency Medicine Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Speaker's biography
Agenda
View the programme
Welcome and introduction
Dr Ioanna Psalti, Council Member, RSM Medicine and Society Section and Dr Andrew Papanikitas, President, RSM GP Section
Why climate change in medical education and why now?
Tamara Lucas, Executive Editor, The Lancet
Climate change and health: Implications for CPD
Sir Andrew Haines, Professor of Environmental Change and Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Climate in medical education and training
Aarti Bansal, Founder, Greener Practice Network, GP and NIHR research fellow at Hull York Medical School and Sarah Walpole, Infectious Diseases Registrar, Newcastle Hospitals, Sustainable Healthcare Education Network
The USA perspective on the learning needs of qualified professionals with respect to the environment, and the integration of climate in the curriculum
Renee Salas, Lead Author of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change U.S. Brief since 2018, Emergency Medicine Physician, Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Panel discussion
Closing remarks
Location
Online
Disclaimer: All views expressed in this webinar are of the speakers themselves and not of the RSM nor the speaker's organisations.
Special rates for difficult times
The RSM wishes to offer healthcare professionals continued learning opportunities during the coronavirus pandemic. The RSM’s weekly COVID-19 Series webinars remain free of charge, while there will be small charges to register for other online education. These fees will enable the RSM to continue its programme of activities and will apply during the course of the pandemic.
This webinar will be available for registered delegates 30 days after on Zoom. The link will be sent 24 hours after the webinar takes place.
This webinar will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.