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Serving Up Climate Education: An innovative resident curriculum addressing climate change through plant-based solutions
| Title: | Serving Up Climate Education: An innovative resident curriculum addressing climate change through plant-based solutions |
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| Authors: | Elizabeth Cerceo, Karen Cohen, Krystal Hunter, Margaret Hofstedt, Shirley Kalwaney |
| Source: | The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Vol 20, Iss , Pp 100330- (2024) |
| Publisher Information: | Elsevier, 2024. |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Collection: | LCC:Public aspects of medicine LCC:Meteorology. Climatology |
| Subject Terms: | Plant-based diet, Resident education, Climate change, Climate crisis, Public aspects of medicine, RA1-1270, Meteorology. Climatology, QC851-999 |
| More Details: | Background: Future physicians will increasingly face the consequences of the climate crisis. Few medical training programs educate sufficiently on nutrition and even fewer have robust climate health education. Plant-based diets address climate change mitigation as well as individual health. Objective: We sought to understand whether a brief educational session would improve knowledge and attitudes of climate health and plant-based diets. Methods: A cohort study was conducted from June to September 2023 with PGY1 internal and family medicine interns at three sites who participated in a faculty-led session on climate health and plant-based diets. The authors designed a pre- and post-survey assessing knowledge and attitudes on climate health and plant-based diets. Results: Among the 37 intern participants, 76% and 73% reported they received 25 hours of nutrition education as recommended by the National Academy of Sciences. After the presentation, interns demonstrated significant improvement in knowledge and attitudes regarding the health impacts of air pollution and the environmental effects of meat consumption. They recognized the health impacts on their patients (p |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2667-2782 |
| Relation: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2667278224000336; https://doaj.org/toc/2667-2782 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joclim.2024.100330 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/e3dc040596494e51856a33326f592d7e |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.3dc040596494e51856a33326f592d7e |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 26672782 |
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| DOI: | 10.1016/j.joclim.2024.100330 |
| Published in: | The Journal of Climate Change and Health |
| Language: | English |