Sixty seconds on . . . green medicine

Green with envy?Some medical schools could be, when they see the scores that some of their peers achieved on the latest Planetary Health Report Card.1Report card? Are we going back to school?You could say that. The report card was developed in 2019 by a group of medical students at the University of California who wanted to increase planetary health awareness and accountability at medical schools. Now in its fourth iteration, this year’s report (and its nifty interactive map2) ranks more than 100 medical schools spanning 13 countries.A thorough examination?Selected teams of students rank their own medical schools on the basis of 51 metrics that determine their green credentials across a range of indicators.Such as?Schools are ranked on the curriculums they teach, the research they fund, their community outreach and advocacy, their support for student led initiatives, and how sustainable their campuses are—such as how they source energy and food and…
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