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Medical Residency Programs Should Include Climate Change's Impact On Health, Doctors Say

Examples of a proposed change to curricula include the relationship between air quality and respiratory illness, and the mental health effects of losing your home during a hurricane.

For years healthcare experts have sounded the alarm over the public health threat posed by climate change. Now a new paper proposes what could be the first medical education curriculum designed to prepare future physicians for addressing climate change's impact on care delivery and health outcomes. (Johnson, 9/9)

As massive wildfires, hurricanes, and record-breaking temperatures hit parts of the U.S., a group of doctors is urging medical residency programs to implement standardized curricula on the health impacts of climate change. Their framework, published in a paper Wednesday in Academic Medicine, includes a breakdown of high-risk populations, including the elderly and low-income families, and a review of the current understanding on how climate impacts health — such as the relationship between air quality and respiratory illness. (Chakradhar, 9/10)

In other news about health care personnel —

At least 59 workers have died of COVID-19 after potentially being exposed on the job, according to a Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health report out Thursday. Of the 59 dead whose jobs could be identified, the vast majority were in health care, along with a handful of transportation workers, retail and grocery employees, and police officers. (Johnston, 9/9)

There’s a vast body of research showing that physicians and other health care professionals experience high rates of burnout, their roles leaving them exhausted, overworked, or detached. But a new study makes the case that it’s difficult to capture how common burnout actually is because how it’s defined varies so widely. (Gopalakrishna, 9/9)

Two years into travel nursing, Sierra Levin had no plans to settle down. Working around three months at a time at hospitals in California, Massachusetts and Texas — and taking time off in between to explore France, Australia and New Zealand — the 26-year-old was enjoying the adventure too much to stop. Ryan Cogdill knows the feeling. "It's an addiction for me, the freedom I have," says Cogdill, who's cared for patients throughout his native California, in Denver and in Austin. He's even taken assignments in Maui and Guam. (Gottfried, 9/9)

In legal news —

The gynecologist accused of sexual assault by the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang was indicted on federal charges for the sexual abuse of six women over nearly two decades, according to federal prosecutors. Former Manhattan doctor Robert A. Hadden is charged with six counts of enticing women to engage in illegal sex acts, Audrey Strauss, the acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced Wednesday at a joint news conference with FBI Assistant Director William F. Sweeney Jr. (Kornfield, 9/9)

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