Why medical curricula shouldn’t neglect the Sustainable Development Goals

Bianca Quintella is a 4th year Brazilian medical student who advocates daily for better, more homogeneous and humanized curricula all over the world.


Whose are the sustainable development goals?

They are said to belong to governments, businesses and the society. However, how much does the society really know about them?

Medical students, for example, are a part of the society which should be directly fighting to achieve 3 of said goals: good health and well being, gender equality and reduced inequalities. Medical curricula all over the world should guarantee that students are trained to work on them.

Nevertheless, commonly, doctors themselves smoke, drink, have no mental health, don’t exercise, eat poorly, sleep terribly and have no time to raise families due to their insane working shifts. In other words, good health and well being to who?

Many doctors, daily, practice misogyny, xenophobia, homophobia and the most despicable judgments, in their words and actions towards the patients they claim to care about, or even students they terrorize during the whole academic life. Where are we reducing inequalities? Read more via European Sting