Increasing Aboriginal Cultural Safety Among Health Care Practitioners

The content for the seminar is drawn from the Joint Task Force of the Canadian Association of Faculties of Medicine and The Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada who developed a curriculum outlining core competencies for medical students to practice cultural safety toward their Aboriginal pati...

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Published in:Canadian journal of public health 2012-09, Vol.103 (5), p.e397-e397
Main Authors: Shah, Chandrakant P., Reeves, Allison
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Canadian native peoples
Colleges
Colleges & universities
Core curriculum
Cultural Competency - education
Curricula
Curriculum
Demographic aspects
Health aspects
Health care
Health Personnel - education
Health sciences
Humans
Letter to the Editor
Letters
Medical personnel
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Native North Americans
Native peoples
Ontario
Physicians
Physiological aspects
Public Health
Seminars
Universities
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Summary:The content for the seminar is drawn from the Joint Task Force of the Canadian Association of Faculties of Medicine and The Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada who developed a curriculum outlining core competencies for medical students to practice cultural safety toward their Aboriginal patients.1 There currently exists a great disparity between health status and health determinants of Aboriginal peoples compared to the rest of the Canadian population.
ISSN:0008-4263
1920-7476
1920-7476
DOI:10.1007/BF03404450