Sign-On Letter: Integrating Climate and Planetary Health Into ACGME Program Requirements
In light of the rapidly evolving health impacts of climate change and environmental degradation, we are respectfully urging the ACGME to explicitly incorporate climate and planetary health into the Common Program Requirements and into specialty-specific Program Requirements, thereby ensuring that all residents are prepared to care for patients in a changing environmental context. Building on the framework proposed in Academic Medicine, we respectfully request that ACGME consider the following actions:

  1. Incorporate planetary health into the Common Program Requirements.
  2. Embed climate and planetary health within existing competency domains rather than creating a separate silo.
  3. Support specialty-specific implementation while maintaining a common standard.
  4. Leverage existing tools and initiatives to reduce burden on programs.
Read the full letter here. Please fill out the form below to sign on by June 30.

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