Welcome to our 2025 MBChB Education Conference - Delegate Information
Graduate Entry Medicine in a Global World
Friday 27th June 2025
Scarman, University of Warwick
Our conference question:
What are your top tips or questions on education for sustainable healthcare and medical education in a global world?
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Poster voting
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Friday 27 June at 15.25.
Keynote:
Medical Education and the new GMC sustainability duty – applying what we know.
Dr SanYuMay Tun & Dr Theresa Martin.
A mandatory new sustainability duty came into effect in January 2024 in Good medical Practice, and medical schools are increasingly turning to the MSC’s 'Education for Sustainable Healthcare - a Curriculum for the UK'. What tools and resources do we have, to teach this new paradigm, and how can we dispel the myths around the sustainability of healthcare systems and clinical care? How might we ensure that doctors entering the workforce have the necessary knowledge, skills and experience to incorporate planetary health and ESH concepts into clinical decision-making and help make the entire patient pathway better for the patient, practitioner and planet?
Dr SanYuMay Tun has a background in medicine as a former general practitioner, in environmental science and policy, and in medical education as a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA). She chairs MSC – ESHA, the Medical Schools Council’s Education for Sustainable Healthcare (ESH) Alliance, having led the development of the first ESH curriculum to be endorsed by any national medical educational bodies – Education for Sustainable Healthcare – A curriculum for the UKLink opens in a new window. This curriculum guidance document is included by the GMC as informing its required Outcomes for graduates. SanYuMay has an international presence in bringing Planetary Health and sustainable healthcare into core health professions training. At the University of Oxford SanYuMay leads on Education for Sustainable Healthcare, and is a Fellow of Green Templeton College.
Dr Theresa Martin has over a decade of experience as a medical educator; including resource creation, teaching, supporting students and curriculum design for medicine. For her, education requires great courage, to create a learning environment in which students feel safe to be their whole selves. Her greatest satisfaction comes from seeing students determinedly succeed despite the greatest of obstacles.
She was the first year of entrants into a new school of medicine, Imperial College London in 1998 where she undertook a intercalated BSc in Psychology and Psychiatry alongside her medical studies. She graduated in 2004 and undertook foundation training as a junior doctor and further specialist training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She made the move to full time medical educator in 2013, and began designing a new medical school for the University of Portsmouth in 2021 as a Clinical Programme Developer.
Her practice as a medical educator is informed by her own personal experiences as a learner, junior doctor, teacher and later, patient. Very often these experiences are not those of success, but of the thing we learn most powerfully from - failure.
Throughout her work she has spoken about compassionate care, wellbeing, resilience and burnout and sustainability to medical students, junior doctors and teams of health professionals.
She is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, a UKAT recognised practitioner of academic advising, and an active member of medical education organisations ASME, AMEE and AoME.
She has shared much of her work at conferences and received several awards for her teaching and innovation. She is the author of several book chapters, and of the Education for Sustainable Healthcare curriculum for the UK (with SanYuMay Tun).
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