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Sustainability in clinical skills teaching
Sanjin Bajgoric1, Joseph Appiah, Valerie Wass
1Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK.
Medical students integrated sustainability into clinical skills training. This approach, focusing on environmental, social, and economic factors, can be expanded across medical schools to reduce healthcare
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Environmental Sustainability
- Clinical Skills Training
Background:
- Climate change necessitates environmental sustainability in healthcare.
- Clinicians must manage healthcare's environmental impact.
- Medical educators can reduce environmental impact through innovation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore the introduction of sustainability into clinical skills teaching.
- To investigate methods for making existing clinical skills more sustainable.
Main Methods:
- Student-led project during student-selected components (SSCs).
- Surveyed existing practices and analyzed skills in a lab setting.
- Adapted skills (cannulation, IV antibiotic preparation) for environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
- Taught revised skills to peers.
Main Results:
- Identified opportunities to enhance sustainability in prototype clinical skills.
- Successfully adapted and taught sustainable versions of cannulation and IV antibiotic preparation.
Conclusions:
- Sustainable clinical skills teaching methods can be adopted by medical schools.
- Expansion to a wider range of clinical skills is feasible.
- Requires approval from clinical skills directors.
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