Toolkits for action on sustainability within your hospital and professional organisation

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Sonia Chanchlani almost quit medicine due to frustration with a broken healthcare system.

The episode begins with hosts Olly Flower and Roger Harris introducing the Coda Change podcast and announcing a new charitable initiative to support free medical education. Sonia Chanchlani then delivers a presentation on sustainability toolkits for healthcare. She explains her background as a junior doctor who nearly left medicine due to system frustrations. Chanchlani joined Doctors for the Environment Australia and helped create resources to address clinician disenfranchisement. The toolkits include curriculum mapping for medical schools, teaching hospital guides for Grand Rounds, and Green College Guidelines for specialty colleges. The Green College Guidelines have been adopted by the College of Surgeons. She announces pilot programs at nine medical schools and two major hospitals. Chanchlani discusses challenges in maintaining motivation after conferences and offers strategies like finding allies and using moral courage. She references a 2017 MJA article on cognitive biases to counter resistance from colleagues. The presentation emphasizes the need for coordinated top-down and bottom-up efforts in healthcare sustainability. Chanchlani concludes by urging clinicians to fight for the planet with the same passion as for patients.

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