Course Credit: 3 hours AIR Stamp of Approval and Honorable Mentions Below we have listed our selection of the 6 highest quality blog posts within the past 12 months, as assessed in January 2023 related to procedures in the Emergency Department, curated and approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. More specifically in …
Course Credit: 2 hours AIR Stamp of Approval and Honorable Mentions Below we have listed our selection of the 4 highest quality blog posts within the past 12 months, as assessed in November 2022 related to orthopedics lower extremity emergencies in the Emergency Department, curated and approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. …
Course Credit: 3 hours AIR Stamp of Approval and Honorable Mentions Below we have listed our selection of the 5 highest quality blog posts within the past 12 months, as assessed in June 2022 related to Neurology emergencies in the Emergency Department, curated and approved for residency training by the AIR Series Board. More specifically …
Course Credit: 6 hours At this point in the curriculum your mind may be firing with ideas of how to bring institutional, social, and political change in the arena of climate change. Central to advocacy is our ability to communicate and engage with interested parties. In this section, we will focus on climate communication, our …
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Course Credit: 6 hours The term “policy” refers to a set of principles that drive actions, whether at an individual, institutional, or governmental level. Throughout history, local and national policies have played substantial roles in improving public health, from tobacco control to occupational safety laws or seatbelts. Health professional engagement as educators and stakeholders to …
Course Credit: 4 hours Emergency medicine has a unique stance to engage in climate change education, especially given our critical frontline role in responding to increasing demands related to climate-sensitive conditions and supply chain and personnel shortages. Climate education can be broken down into 3 main facets: This module will dive into ways in which …
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Course Credit: 6 hours The U.S. healthcare sector emits 8.5% of the country’s total emissions. Hospitals are a substantial part of this. Not only are we tasked with responding to the many health impacts of climate change, but we are also contributing to the problem. Each one of our hospitals and organizations has an immense …
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Course Credit: 2 hours Building resilience is central to improving the morbidity and mortality associated with various climate change health threats in the short and long-term. How does a hospital maximize their ability to remain operational during and after tropical storms? How do we secure resource mobilization to rapidly treat heat stroke during a heat …
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Course Credit: 2 hours COVID-19 has posed an unprecedented challenge to health care systems. How do we adapt and reallocate resources when confronted by a widespread and a novel threat? There are many parallels that can be made between the global response to COVID-19 and the challenges we will face as we mitigate and adapt …
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Course Credit: 8 hours While climate change is predicted to affect healthcare across the world, no two countries will suffer climatic stressors in the same way. In this section, we will explore the wide-ranging interactions between climate change and global health, focusing on direct climate impacts, impacts mediated by the natural environment, and impacts mediated …
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