Doctor Thinks ‘Climate Change Classes Should be “Mandatory” in Med School’
“it is essential that professional schools educate their students about climate change and help them recognize impacts when they present in the office, clinic, or the ER”
The doctor also claims that climate change is not a political issue. Just amazing.
The College Fix reports:
Climate change classes should be ‘mandatory’ in med school, doctor says
Climate change courses should be “mandatory” for aspiring doctors, according to medical students and clinicians in Michigan.
“My personal opinion is that it should be mandatory,” Dr. Lisa DelBuono told The College Fix via email. “Climate change has been politicized, but it is not a political issue… It would be irresponsible to not prepare future practitioners for the realities they will be facing.”
“Fossil fuels pollution and climate change are making Michigan residents sick today, and the impacts are on track to become much worse going forward,” she said. “The good news is that climate solutions are health solutions and most of what we do to address climate change will improve human health, save lives, and save healthcare dollars.”
She is the founder and president of Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action.
She said, “it is essential that professional schools educate their students about climate change and help them recognize impacts when they present in the office, clinic, or the ER.” She gave examples like the consequences of “extreme heat and humidity’ on people’s health.
DelBuono shared a survey by the Association of American Medical Colleges which shows that, between 2019 and 2021 the number of medical schools requiring climate change curriculum increased from 27 percent to 55 percent.
She said there has been pushback regarding this curriculum addition, even from physicians. Two common concerns include worries that the already dense curriculum would not have space to include more information. She also said med school professors may not be aware enough about the health impacts of climate change to teach it.
DelBuono tried to connect The Fix to med students involved in this effort, but none were available for comment. However, students at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University are involved with pushing for climate education in med school, according to Bridge Michigan.
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I wish they’d stick with anatomy and all the other real medical stuff.
Moron.
“Extreme heat and humidity” are weather, not climate, and people have been presenting themselves to doctors with the symptoms of those things for thousands of years. Even if glawball warmening were happening, knowing about it would not be of any use to a doctor. The knowledge would not affect how the doctor would treat these symptoms, so why does she need to know it? Assuming it to be real, which it isn’t.
Yes, a point that needs making. Just because a patient suffers from environmental toxins does nothing to close the “logical leap” between those toxins and some proposed way that they may also affect “climate.” Doctors don’t have to treat the “global climate,” they have to treat patients. This is as stupid as demanding that doctors study marine conservation because the plastic rings from their alcoholic patients’ sixpacks can strangle sea animals.
they are already there as it goes along with the
everything whitey has done has ruined the planet, philosophy they teach
How about we teach future physicians how to diagnose and treat diseases? Isn’t that enough?
“Because this is more important!”
The tiresome cry of every narcissistic zealot in history.
It’s amusing to see it appear even in the anecdotal history of what may quite possibly be the historically first known “electronic mail” spam: 1971, long before the Internet or even the term “spam.”
Lisa needs to have her hyster checked out.
Yeah, well, I’m a retired a academic surgeon. And I think that stuff like this has exactly zero place in a medical curriculum. Allowing wackadoodles to establish curricula dooms medicine. Maybe we need to study witchery, too. After all, there have never been randomized control studies to show that it ~doesn’t~ work as well as conventional medicine and surgery.
There. Now a doctor says it should NOT be taught in medical schools.
So the Big Brother approved (mandated?) solution will be to take up time with indoctrination about the Climate Change Scam, which necessarily takes time away from learning about actual medicine. Only a sick statist thinks this way.
To go along with the ‘diversity’ racism already imposed on medical (and other) education.
Progressives hate humanity.