The slides: An evaluation of planetary health lecture slides for medical education.

Educational Challenge: There is an urgent need for innovations in planetary health medical education. Physicians must be prepared to provide high-value, low-carbon healthcare for patients increasingly impacted by the health consequences of climate change.

Proposed Solution: The slides, an evidence-based, open-access pedagogical tool that provides didactic planetary health medical education organized by medical subspecialty, was developed and evaluated by a virtual lecture session that presented a subset of the slides to  = 75 Canadian medical students. Each participant completed a questionnaire before and after the virtual lecture that included multiple choice questions to assess their planetary health knowledge and a rating of their interest in including the slides in medical curricula.

Lessons Learned: Participants showed significantly improved planetary health knowledge scores ( < 0.0001) and increased interest in including the slides in medical curricula ( < 0.001) after the virtual lecture session. This study demonstrates that the slides are a valuable pedagogical tool to advance planetary health medical education.

Next Steps: Future directions include evaluating faculty perspectives on the slides, learning outcomes of the slides implemented longitudinally in medical curricula, and developing higher-order problem-based and simulation-based planetary health medical education resources. Given the urgent need for planetary health medical education, we recommend the global sharing of teaching resources to facilitate the rapid upscaling of validated pedagogical tools internationally.