9g. Environmentally sustainable clinical practice in GP medical education
Track 7
| Saturday, November 23, 2024 |
| 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM |
| River View Room 5 (Level 2) |
Details
60min clinical workshop | The impact of climate change on us and our patients, is lived experience but also somewhat overwhelming.
Healthcare generates a bigger carbon footprint than it should, whilst hospitals make the biggest contribution, general practice still makes a significant impact. Much result from prescribing, but many other patterns of practice also play a big role. All GPs should feel some obligation to minimise their practising impact on the environment.
This presentation is about stimulating GPs about ways and means to adopt evidence based sustainable clinical practice to reduce our negative environmental impact, in pragmatic and meaningful ways that are within the reach of all of us.
Jane will be assisted by 3 co-facilitators:
Nimath Malawaraarachchi, Lisa Olsen, and Laura Beaton
This presentation is about stimulating GPs about ways and means to adopt evidence based sustainable clinical practice to reduce our negative environmental impact, in pragmatic and meaningful ways that are within the reach of all of us.
Jane will be assisted by 3 co-facilitators:
Nimath Malawaraarachchi, Lisa Olsen, and Laura Beaton
Speaker
Dr Laura Beaton
RACGP Climate & Environmental Medicine Specific Interest Group
Co-facilitator
Biography
Dr Laura Beaton is a general practitioner, medical educator and early career academic based in Melbourne.
Laura is an active member of the RACGP Climate and Environmental Medicine Special Interest Group as well as volunteer with Doctors for the Environment Australia (DEA). Laura is part of the founding collaboration that co-developed a “planetary health-organ system map” resource for graduate medical education. This project has expanded nationally since 2017 and supported planetary health integration into all levels of medical training curricula.
Laura has a Graduate Certificate in Clinical Education, teaches at Melbourne Medical School, supervises medical students and GP registrars and is involved in developing and delivering professional development to fellow GPs. She designed and delivered part of a new award-winning MD subject in 2023 and 2024 focusing on our health system’s transitions of care. Laura was a co-opted committee member for the RACGP Expert Committee Practice Technology and Management 2022-2024.
Dr Nimath Malawaraarachchi
Academic Gp Registrar
Bond University
Co-facilitator
Biography
Miss Isla Mapleson
Executive Officer, Education
RACGP
Session chair
Biography
Dr Lisa Olsen
Bond University
Co-facilitator
Biography
A/Prof Jane Smith
HoD GP
Bond University
Learning about environmentally sustainable clinical practice belongs in general practice medical education.
Biography
Jane Smith is Head of General Practice at Bond University MD Program.Her research interests have included: journal clubs, immunisation, antibiotic use, package size, chronic disease management and prevention, recurrent thrush, fever, medical education and assessment. At Bond University, she created the GP curriculum and learning activities for the medical students to include aligned teaching, GP work place based activities and assessments. Insights from MDANZ, chairing the faculty sustainability committee and teaching pre-intern medical students about becoming more sustainable in GP clinical practice was the inspiration for this workshop.
