A Student-Driven Climate Change Elective in the Preclinica

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Lightning Talk as part of the Climate Justice Symposium for Transforming Education (chesc.org/cjste/). Despite the significant threat climate change poses to human health, the US medical curriculum requires little content about the science of climate change or its health impacts. The UCSF School of Medicine is an innovator in education and clinical care, but includes little required learning about climate justice. We describe a student-driven elective on climate and health designed to provide learning opportunities, connect learners to faculty mentors and form peer support and advocacy networks. Our elective equipped students with knowledge of superstructures potentiating climate change, data about associated health outcomes and community level efforts to impart meaningful change, by inviting expert discussants from various domains (reproductive health, nutrition, public policy, etc.) to present their research and field student questions. Holding the course remotely for the first time in 2020 allowed the recording of these talks, which could be disseminated to learners unable to attend live sessions, and for their eventual publication on the UCSF Center for Climate Health and Equity website for public viewing. Our ultimate goal is to garner student interest to catalyze integration of this vital content into the formal curriculum across institutions.

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