Anti-Indigenous Racism Module Emergency Medicine
Activity
e-Learning Module
e-Learning Module
Indigenous populations are the youngest and fastest-growing population in Canada and have disproportionate ED visit rates when compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Emergency physicians and staff should be aware of the potential ways that their institutions can advance health equity for Indigenous patients.
Curriculum Block
Clerkship / Emergency Medicine Rotation
- Indicates most relevant
Objectives
Activity Objectives
- Identify clinical and environmental factors in the Emergency Department setting which may impact in the care an Indigenous patient may receive.
- Identity knowledge gaps of historical events and colonialism which may contribute to unconscious bias towards Indigenous patients in the ED setting.
- Recall circumstances of past incidents of anti-Indigenous racism in the ED setting in Canada.
- Modify factors which may influence unconscious bias towards Indigenous patients in the ED setting .
Assessments
e-Learning Module Completion
Tags
Curriculum Block
Clerkship
Emergency Medicine Rotation
Discipline
Emergency Medicine
Indigenous Health
Longitudinal Discipline
Indigenous Health
Priority Groups
MCC Presentations
Indigenous Health
McMaster Program Competencies
2.1 Demonstrate an understanding of what knowledge is, the strengths and limitations of different ways of knowing, and how knowledge is created in historical, cultural and social contexts.
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.
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.
6.2 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
MeSH
Bias, Implicit [F01.145.813.550.281]
Colonialism [I01.696.116]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Indigenous Canadians [M01.270.968.500.600.375]
Racism [F01.145.813.629.625]
