Introduction to Indigenous People's Health
Activity
PC Session
PC Session
This session addresses the health of Indigenous people and the important determinants from an Indigenous perspective. Through this session students will begin to address the First Nations, Inuit and Metis Health Core Competencies in the area of Medical Expert and Professional.
Curriculum Block
Part 2 / Professional Competencies 2 / Week 6
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Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Increased awareness of events surrounding Residential School System in Canada.
- Identify current stereotypes in Canadian Aboriginal medical education.
- Review of trauma-related care and application to Indigenous individuals affected by the residential school system.
- Self awareness and reflection of learners regarding the impact of trauma related to generational issues and strategies to support these individuals and their families.
- Review of resources and support systems in place to assist trauma-related care for Indigenous individuals and their families.
General Objectives
- Illustrate how diverse factors (sociocultural, psychological, economic, occupational, environmental, legal, political, spiritual, and technological) interact to influence the health of an individual and the population.
- Justify how knowledge from the social sciences and humanities contributes to medical practice.
- Discuss the historical and contemporary events and the systemic factors influencing current practices and issues regarding Indigenous Health and anti-Indigenous racism, all of which impact current and future practitioners, individuals, and communities.
- Summarize different “ways of knowing” about the body and how these ways affect the clinical encounter.
- Demonstrate awareness of how social contexts and epistemological perspective, such as privilege and power, contribute to uncertainty and ethical challenges in practice.
- Analyze and critically reflect on how the impact of physician power and privilege may contribute to disparities through biased care.
- Identify opportunities to educate and reflect on events of Indigenous self-determination, cultural preservation and growth to foster allyship in Indigenous Healthcare and community settings.
- Recommend responses to key social and cultural factors that lead to poor health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities.
- Plan socially-just courses of action in order to respond to the diverse factors that intersect and overlap to influence the health of the individuals, families and communities.
Assessments
PC Final Student Assessment
PC Interim Student Assessment
PC Reflective Physician Portfolio
PC Integrative Exercise
Tags
CanMEDS Roles
Health Advocate
Curriculum Block
Part 2
Professional Competencies 2
Week 6
Curriculum Week
Part 2
Week 6
Discipline
Indigenous Health
Longitudinal Discipline
Indigenous Health
Priority Groups
MCC Presentations
Concepts of Health and Its Determinants
Indigenous Health
Providing anti-oppressive health care
McMaster Professional Competency
Social, Cultural and Humanistic Dimensions of Health
McMaster Program Competencies
2.5 Apply principles of socio-behavioural sciences to the provision of patient care, including assessment of the impact of psychosocial and cultural influences on health, disease, care-seeking, care concordance, care adherence and barriers to and attitudes toward care.
3.8 Obtain and use information about individual patients and their caregivers, populations of patients, or communities with which patients identify to improve care
4.1 Communicate effectively with patients, families, and the public, as appropriate, across a broad range of socioeconomic and sociocultural backgrounds
4.3 Demonstrate sensitivity, honesty, and compassion in difficult conversations, including those about death, end of life, adverse events, bad news, disclosure of errors, and other sensitive topics
4.4 Demonstrate insight and understanding about emotions and human responses to emotions that allow one to develop and manage interpersonal interactions, including the ability to manage one’s own interpersonal responses
5.5 Demonstrate sensitivity and responsiveness to a diverse patient population, including all dimensions of diversity such as those that are included in human rights legislation and federal and provincial law.
5.6 Demonstrate a critical understanding of personal, professional and institutional power and privilege and utilize anti-oppressive practice to create patient experiences where marginalization and oppression are minimized.
6.1 Understand the systems of healthcare, including federal, provincial, municipal and local, and the influences they have on the health of individuals and populations
6.2 Identify aspects of the healthcare system that serve as barriers and enablers of providing healthcare to and optimizing the health of patients and the population
6.4 Apply concepts of global health and social medicine to the health of individual patients and populations using the ecology, economy, equity framework
6.8 Participate in identifying system-level gaps and errors and, where appropriate, identify, implement or participate in potential system-level solutions
7.2 Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served
8.4 Demonstrate awareness and acceptance of different points of view
MeSH
Healthcare Disparities [N05.300.493]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Indigenous Peoples [M01.270.968]
Minority Groups [I01.880.853.300]
Minority Health [N01.400.512]
Population Groups [M01.686]
Social Sciences [I01]
Professional Competency
Yes