Elective course “Climate-sensitive health counselling” - prevention as an opportunity for people and planet? An interactive, student-led project focusing on prevention and agency in physician’s climate communication ... : Wahlfach Klimasprechstunde - Prävention als Chance für Mensch und Planet? Ein interaktives, studentisch geleitetes Projekt mit Fokus auf Prävention und Handlungsfähigkeit in der ärztlichen Klimakommunikation ...

Objective: According to the WHO, anthropogenic climate change poses the greatest threat to human health in the 21st century. However, the link between climate change and human health is not an integral part of medical education in Germany. Within a student-led project, an elective clinical course was designed and successfully implemented, which has been made accessible to undergraduate medical students at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg. The implementation and didactic concept are explained in this article. Methodology: In a participatory format, knowledge is imparted using an action-based, transformative approach. Topics discussed are, amongst others, interactions of climate change and health, transformative action, and health behavior, as well as “green hospital” and the simulation of a “climate-sensitive health counselling”. Lecturers from different disciplines within and beyond medicine are invited as speakers. Results: Overall, the elective was evaluated positively by the participants. The fact ...