Curriculum Block

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

• End of Integration Foundation (IF)

• End of MF 4

• Integration Foundation (IF)

Tags

Health Advocate Part 4 Week 6 Part 4 Week 6 Indigenous Health Indigenous Health Priority Groups Concepts of Health and Its Determinants Indigenous Health Providing anti-oppressive health care Social, Cultural and Humanistic Dimensions of Health 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 Colonialism [I01.696.116] 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] Yes