Rethink medical training to cut carbon emissions

Encouraging clinicians to walk, run, or cycle to and from work appears to be a reasonable and healthy solution to reducing the environmental impact of commuting.1 Realistically however, this requires a revision of how UK medical training is organised.Moving trainees around a deanery for years during their training is designed to achieve exposure to different healthcare settings and build experience. Deaneries can be large, and so the distances between successive training posts can be vast. This, coupled with frequent re-applications to specialty training in order to progress, results in movement all over the country.Expecting trainees to relocate locally in order to reduce their commuting carbon footprint is an expensive and disruptive ask. Currently, to maintain some level of stability in their personal lives, clinicians sacrifice their short commute for a long, carbon heavy one.Reworking of the way clinicians are trained and distributed across the country may go some way to…
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