Year 1

Session Guidance A case preview and case questions are released before the small-group session to allow students to come to the first session prepared to actively engage with the case and in clinical reasoning. Students who are less confident in their clinical knowledge can come to the group on a more even playing field. Housekeeping […]

Year 1

Session guidance A case preview and case questions are released before the small-group session to allow students to come to the first session prepared to actively engage with the case and in clinical reasoning. Students who are less confident in their clinical knowledge can come to the group on a more even playing field. Housekeeping […]

Case-Based Learning (CBL) Student Guide

In this guide What is CBL? Case-Based Learning (CBL) is an active, small-group learning environment that uses a clinical case to prompt inquiry and exploration of core clinical and scientific concepts while developing clinical reasoning skills in a structured manner. With the guidance of faculty facilitators and collaboration with peers, you’ll explore various core concepts […]

2027

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Degraded Air Quality

These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Anthony Gerber, MD, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, National Jewish Hospital. What you’ll learn Discover the climate change effects of ozone, PM2.5, and other ambient respiratory irritants on respiratory diseases such as asthma, COPD, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease, cerebrovascular, and allergic diseases. Analyze data […]

Climate Change and Heat Impacts

Mini Lesson: Extreme Heat In this mini lesson, you’ll find: Case studies. Definitions. Review questions. Go to the Mini Lesson: Extreme Heat. Local Government Response to the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Dome https://youtu.be/VUu53Bt7PwE (approximately 25 minutes—you can stop watching at 58 min.) Direct and indirect health impacts of extreme heat Source: Scale and nature of […]

Climate Change and Mental Health

Mental Health in a Changing Climate Mini Lesson: Mental Health and the Environment In this mini lesson, you’ll find: Case studies. Definitions. Review questions. Go to the Mini Lesson: Mental Health and the Environment. These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Dr. Katie Hayes, , PhD, Senior Policy Analyst, Health Canada, Climate Change […]

Extreme Weather Hazards

These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Jesse Bell, PhD: Claire M. Hubbard, Professor of Water, Climate, and Health, Director of the Water, Climate, and Health Program, University of Nebraska Medical Center. Links between Climate and Health Hippocrates Dr. James Tilton Hippocrates Hippocrates wrote about epidemics in 400 B.C.E. and noted the change […]

Vector-Borne Disease

Climate and Human Health Responders: Vector-borne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by Angelle Desiree LaBeaud, MD, MS, Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University Impact of Climate Change on Environmental Processes Climate change is shifting all natural systems. The range, life cycle, growing pattern, and disease dynamics of many living organisms are affected […]

Water- and Food-Related Illness

Climate Change: Impacts on the Hydrologic Cycle and Waterborne Disease These materials are based on the PowerPoint presentation by George Luber, PhD, of Emory University. Source: National Climatic Data Center, NOAA. Global Ocean Heat Content, 1955–2010. Source: NOAA/NESDIS/NODC Ocean Climate Laboratory, updated from Levitus, S., et al., “World ocean heat content and thermostericsea level change […]