UK medical schools must teach about climate crisis, say students

Extreme weather events widen existing inequalities and traumatise victims while climate anxiety affects mental health

Medical students are demanding their schools include the climate crisis as a core component of the curriculum, as the intensifying climate emergency highlights the corresponding health crisis.

Hannah Chase, a final year medical student at Oxford said the sense of urgency hit home recently when a fellow student confessed they didn't believe in climate change. It just shows that we make such assumptions," said Chase. It's needed, this education."