Academic Medicine Open Forum

Momentum is building in the academic medicine community for climate action! A new AAMC report, Climate Action in Academic Medicine: An Overview of How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems are Responding to Climate Change, details efforts in academic medicine to confront climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of academic health systems and integrating climate action into patient care, medical education, and community collaborations. More than 50% of AAMC-member hospitals and health systems and more than 80% of medical schools or their parent universities are taking definitive steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pursue other climate actions.

Other key findings include:

• Teaching hospitals and health systems are acting against climate change, first and foremost, to improve the health of patients, their families, and communities. The following quotation from a CEO is illustrative of the commitment: "Being in service to our communities, we strive to protect and improve public health. This requires that we don't contribute to environmental harm."

• Leaders in academic medicine are paying attention to the values of their students, residents, and the younger members of their workforce. Medical school deans and the CEOs of teaching hospitals and health systems observed that students, residents, and younger health professionals working within and being recruited to their institutions care deeply about climate change and seek to be associated with institutions that share those values.

• Over the past 3 years, the percentage of medical schools with required curriculum on the health effects of climate change has doubled. In the 2019-20 academic year, 27% of medical schools included the health effects of climate change as a topic in required preclerkship or clerkship courses. In 2021-22, 55% of schools did.

Are there initiatives and programs at your institution to reduce GHG emissions, improve sustainability, and protect communities against climate change? If so, please share your examples!






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William T. Mallon, Ed.D.
Sr. Director, Strategy & Innovation Development
Association of American Medical Colleges
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For anyone who wants to download the document from the library here, you can do so as well.

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Penny Schnarrs she/her
Director of Community Relations and Strategy
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-05-2022 14:14
From: Bill Mallon
Subject: Climate action in Academic Medicine

Momentum is building in the academic medicine community for climate action! A new AAMC report, Climate Action in Academic Medicine: An Overview of How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems are Responding to Climate Change, details efforts in academic medicine to confront climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of academic health systems and integrating climate action into patient care, medical education, and community collaborations. More than 50% of AAMC-member hospitals and health systems and more than 80% of medical schools or their parent universities are taking definitive steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pursue other climate actions.

Other key findings include:

• Teaching hospitals and health systems are acting against climate change, first and foremost, to improve the health of patients, their families, and communities. The following quotation from a CEO is illustrative of the commitment: "Being in service to our communities, we strive to protect and improve public health. This requires that we don't contribute to environmental harm."

• Leaders in academic medicine are paying attention to the values of their students, residents, and the younger members of their workforce. Medical school deans and the CEOs of teaching hospitals and health systems observed that students, residents, and younger health professionals working within and being recruited to their institutions care deeply about climate change and seek to be associated with institutions that share those values.

• Over the past 3 years, the percentage of medical schools with required curriculum on the health effects of climate change has doubled. In the 2019-20 academic year, 27% of medical schools included the health effects of climate change as a topic in required preclerkship or clerkship courses. In 2021-22, 55% of schools did.

Are there initiatives and programs at your institution to reduce GHG emissions, improve sustainability, and protect communities against climate change? If so, please share your examples!

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William T. Mallon, Ed.D.
Sr. Director, Strategy & Innovation Development
Association of American Medical Colleges
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Thanks for making access so easy, @Penny Schnarrs
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Nancy Hayes
Director of Clinical Foundations
Florida State University College of Medicine
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Original Message:
Sent: 12-05-2022 02:43:19 PM
From: Penny Schnarrs
Subject: Climate action in Academic Medicine

For anyone who wants to download the document from the library here, you can do so as well.

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Penny Schnarrs she/her
Director of Community Relations and Strategy
Association of American Medical Colleges

Original Message:
Sent: 12-05-2022 14:14
From: Bill Mallon
Subject: Climate action in Academic Medicine

Momentum is building in the academic medicine community for climate action! A new AAMC report, Climate Action in Academic Medicine: An Overview of How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals and Health Systems are Responding to Climate Change, details efforts in academic medicine to confront climate change by reducing the carbon footprint of academic health systems and integrating climate action into patient care, medical education, and community collaborations. More than 50% of AAMC-member hospitals and health systems and more than 80% of medical schools or their parent universities are taking definitive steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pursue other climate actions.

Other key findings include:

• Teaching hospitals and health systems are acting against climate change, first and foremost, to improve the health of patients, their families, and communities. The following quotation from a CEO is illustrative of the commitment: "Being in service to our communities, we strive to protect and improve public health. This requires that we don't contribute to environmental harm."

• Leaders in academic medicine are paying attention to the values of their students, residents, and the younger members of their workforce. Medical school deans and the CEOs of teaching hospitals and health systems observed that students, residents, and younger health professionals working within and being recruited to their institutions care deeply about climate change and seek to be associated with institutions that share those values.

• Over the past 3 years, the percentage of medical schools with required curriculum on the health effects of climate change has doubled. In the 2019-20 academic year, 27% of medical schools included the health effects of climate change as a topic in required preclerkship or clerkship courses. In 2021-22, 55% of schools did.

Are there initiatives and programs at your institution to reduce GHG emissions, improve sustainability, and protect communities against climate change? If so, please share your examples!

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William T. Mallon, Ed.D.
Sr. Director, Strategy & Innovation Development
Association of American Medical Colleges
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