A number of health practitioners — from all over the U.S. — were recently here as part of the University Colorado School of Medicine’s Diploma in Climate Medicine Program. It trains clinical leaders about climate change and its health impacts. Director and family physician Bhargavi Chekuri said it starts with a crash course on the basics.The diploma is a 250-hour continuing education program with five one-week certifications. They study things like environmental justice, helping health systems decarbonize and reduce their energy use and surviving disasters. To date, 60 people have done training in one or more climate medicine diploma certificates. Most of them are physicians; the others are nurses and paramedics, and another is a physical therapist.
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