Planetary Health Report Card

Our goals! We're preparing for our next cycle of the #Phreportcard and it's time to review our goals. We want the report card to be more interdisciplinary-focused. Can you think how we might make these goals align with that vision?

The General Medical Council (GMC) recently published a mission statement outlining the importance of planetary health in undergraduate medical education. The first medical education regulator to do so, a huge win for our UK and international PHRC School teams and for others advocating for this work. This statement is the first outcome of our two year partnership with the GMC. The UK PHRC team have been working with their Education Policy Team since March 2022 to provide insight into the student perspective and steer them on how medical education needs to adapt for the future. Our sights are still set on Outcomes for Graduates and with our biggest ever publication of PHRC report cards in April, we are more confident than ever in the power of student advocacy. For more context of our work, including our open letter and workshop, please see our blog post here: https://lnkd.in/egXY36AT Please read the full mission statement and share with your colleagues in medical education here: https://lnkd.in/eqNXwK6f

We are recruiting! It is an exciting time for the PHRC with our new Co-directors in position and our imminent 501c non-profit status on the way. We are looking for students and early-career healthcare professionals to join our leadership team and become part of the largest student planetary health advocacy group. You'll get to be part of the growing Planetary Health Report Card international community and play a vital role in driving the development of planetary health education. If you are passionate about planetary health and have the time to dedicate to the project, we'd love to hear from you. Our list of available roles can be found here: https://lnkd.in/enVcQszg The link to the application form is here: https://lnkd.in/e6w3eRvA Please share this with students that you think might be interested.

Students, faculty interested persons, Please join us for our first Community Feedback Meeting. You’ll get the chance to meet the new Co-directors, input into our 2 year plan and feedback on your current involvement. Agenda: 🌱 Meet the new Co-Directors: James Lee, Arya Pontula, Emily Coady 🌱 Our goals for 2024/25 🌱 Breakout room for feedback and questions July 21st 13:00 GMT / 14:00 BST / 06:00 PDT / 23:00 AEST Please register using this Google form: https://lnkd.in/eVacYhuD We will look forward to meeting you all soon! You may have seen this post before but we have decided to reconsider our use of the term 'stakeholders' as it has negative connotations linked to colonialism— just one example of how our community is helping us to grow. You can read more about it here: https://lnkd.in/efW3eQXi

PHRC results day! 🌱🌎 Today student teams at 151 health professional schools publish their PHRC reports outlining the best (and worst) practices in planetary health education. Read more to discover the most comprehensive assessment of planetary health teaching in healthcare. 2024 is our biggest year ever with over 1000 students at 151 schools in 18 countries taking part across medicine, pharmacy, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and dentistry. We’ve put together some highlights below and you can read the full summary report at phreportcard.org! This years top performing medical schools were: #1 Keele Medical School, UK #2 University of Emory, US #3  University College London, UK. This year's biggest improver was Chicago Medical School, US  improving their score by 24.7%. Taking #1 for Nursing, University of Minnesota, US. #1 Pharmacy, University of Montana, US. #1 Dentistry, Kings College London, UK. 1# Physiotherapy, Stellenbosch University. #1 Veterinary Medicine, University of California Davis, US.  Congratulations to University of East Anglia for completing the first pilot in Occupational therapy, and the veterinary and dentistry school teams for completing the first report cards too. Laying the foundation for these disciplines in our next cycle! The aim of the PHRC is to inspire internal collaboration and drive the development of planetary health education. We are delighted to share that 78% of schools with a previous report card improved their scores! Evidence of a changing planetary health education landscape. Each report card is a huge amount of work so please help us in thanking every student, faculty, and member of the PHRC leadership team that made this work possible! You can thank them by 1) sharing this tweet, 2) reading our summary report 3) spreading the word. Don’t you see your school, country or discipline on the leaderboards? Get in touch and we’d love to discuss starting the PHRC at your institution. Contact us on twitter or through our website phreportcard.org. We’ve so many people and institutions to thank for supporting us throughout the year, we’ve tried to tag them below, but a special thanks to the Macy foundation for financially supporting us this year and our wonderful co-directors Isabel Waters and Taylor Diedrich for getting us through it! Collaborators / Partners / Similar organisations: @GCCHE_ @UKHealthClimate @Irishdocsenv @MS4SF @emsa_europe @CFMSFEMC @helmsic @ClimateHealthEd@HCWHGlobal @HCWithoutHarm @HCWHeurope @SusHealthcare @GreenerPractice @ph_alliance @UCClimateHealth @pracgreenhealth @SfGH_UK @ukmedschools @bmj_latest @TheLancetPlanet @DoctorsXr @Medact @Revolution-ZERO1, @RNClimateChal, @healthforfuture @mclean294, @Esh_southafrica

Hey everyone, Madeline here from the PHRC - reminding you about the symposium happening on April 14th on the theme of climate justice! Please share amongst your circles, we are hoping for a good turnout! #planetaryhealth Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/enUvVvTk!

You can now find curriculum metrics for all 6 PHRC disciplines on our website! As the initiative has grows and new disciplines join the PHRC, we work with faculty and students to tailor a curriculum section that fits that discipline. Don't see your discipline on there? Get in touch. https://lnkd.in/eU6-H2v7

It is almost PHRC publication day! Want to be the first to read the international summary report? Sign up below to be emailed the report on publication day! #planetaryhealth https://lnkd.in/e_i-sn5i

Only 7 days until the first drafts are due! We are super excited to read the first drafts and begin the review process - but what is the *review process*? Read all the about the process on our website: https://lnkd.in/dR7NhYu3

PHRC Metric Support: 1.13 Indigenous Knowledge. Why do healthcare professionals need to learn about indigenous knowledge? Metric 1.13: To what extent does your medical school emphasize the importance of Indigenous knowledge and value systems as essential components of planetary health solutions? Indigenous communities around the world are critical in protecting biodiversity and possess a wealth of knowledge on how humans can exist in balance with our environment. In countries/communities who experienced colonial oppression, the value and respect for indigenous teaching was forcibly removed and as a result many people have lost touch with this ancient wisdom. As we look for ways to create a more environmentally-friendly society, we should create spaces for indigenous people to share their deep understanding of the natural world and value their contributions to healthcare. This metric focuses on indigenous leadership and knowledge in planetary health, rather than vulnerability. Ideally, this topic should not simply be an add-on, but part of a genuine transformation/decolonization of the curriculum. A helpful starting point would be to research the colonial history of your region to try and understand who the indigenous people of your land are/were or how your country was involved in perpetuating colonialism. You can see examples below of how some health professional schools are teaching this topic. If you have any further examples or anything to add, comment below! Make sure to check out University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine's and University of Brighton's full report cards on our website: phreportcard.org