The Impact of Presenting Environmental Sustainability Research on Continuing Medical Education

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The integration of environmental sustainability and planetary health research into continuing medical education is becoming increasingly essential, as demonstrated by the recent Paediatric Surgery Research Day. This event is a local, accredited, annual research conference for the Division of Paediatric Surgery at Children's Hospital at London Health Sciences Centre in Ontario, Canada. At this conference, research presentations in many areas of paediatric surgery are represented including general surgery, otolaryngology, orthopaedic surgery, urology, ophthalmology, plastic surgery, and neurosurgery.

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Article · Jul 2024 · 1 min read

In brief

This article examines the integration of environmental sustainability and planetary health topics into accredited continuing medical education, using a Canadian pediatric surgery research conference as a case study. It demonstrates how climate-related research can be incorporated into traditional surgical subspecialty education formats.

Environmental sustainability research is now being integrated into accredited continuing medical education conferences.
The Paediatric Surgery Research Day model demonstrates feasibility of incorporating planetary health topics into specialty CME.
Multi-subspecialty surgical conferences provide opportunities to address sustainability across diverse practice areas.
Planetary health education can be embedded within existing CME structures rather than requiring separate events.

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