Demonstrate awareness of the connection between historical and current government practices towards Indigenous peoples (including, but not limited to: colonization, residential schools, treaties, bills, land claims, segregation and Indian hospitals), and the intergenerational health outcomes that have resulted.
Demonstrate an understanding of the impact and correlation of the various medical, social and spiritual determinants of health and well-being on Indigenous peoples.
Demonstrate an awareness of the context of patient referrals, especially as it relates to patients travelling unaccompanied from remote locations, and engage in effective patient-centered consultation with health care professionals in the patients’ home community to establish and ensure appropriate support systems and follow-up for sustained culturally appropriate care.
Demonstrate an understanding of the cultural diversities of Indigenous peoples that result in a variety of perspectives, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours.
Demonstrate an understanding of the strengths and resilience of Indigenous peoples, families and communities.
Demonstrate cultural safety as it pertains to individual Indigenous patients.
Establish positive therapeutic relationship with Indigenous patients and their families. Effective and culturally safe communication encourages reciprocity, equality, trust, respect, honesty and empathy.
Deliver information to Indigenous patients and their families regarding tests, reports, protocols and diagnoses and treatment plans in a way that is understandable, respectful and encourages participation in decision-making.
Demonstrate how to appropriately inquire whether an Indigenous patient is taking traditional herbs or medicines to treat their ailment and how to integrate that knowledge into their care.
Describe the complexity of providing health care in context to jurisdictional areas and local health service models.
Understand the discrimination which occurs in allocating medical resources or treatments which impact the inequalities in medical care at the population level.
Practice due diligence in applying a decolonizing approach to measurements of outcomes and interpretation of statistical data as it relates to overall improvements in population health for Indigenous populations.
Demonstrate an understanding of the inequity of access to health care/health information for Indigenous peoples and factors such as discrimination, racism and assimilation that contribute to it.
Demonstrate an understanding of the impact of government policies on the healthcare of Indigenous communities.
Identify and acknowledge racism towards Indigenous people as a risk factor for illness and health inequity.
Demonstrate ways of respectfully addressing direct, indirect and institutionalized racism towards Indigenous peoples.
Demonstrate appropriate strategies of working with Indigenous populations to identify health issues and needs.
Demonstrate effective sharing and promotion of population health strategies and health information with Indigenous patients/populations.
Demonstrate ways of respectfully acquiring information (in a transparent manner) about Indigenous populations which involves communities as partners. This may include respectfully engaging in local community protocols required to seek knowledge/research.
Critically assess the strengths and limitations of available data used as key indicators of Canadian Aboriginal health and recognize the rights of Indigenous communities relating to self-determination of research agendas and processes.
Identify, acknowledge and analyse one’s own cultural values or considered emotional response to the many histories and contemporary environment of Indigenous peoples and offer opinions respectfully.
Acknowledge and analyse the limitations of one’s own knowledge and perspectives, and incorporate new ways of seeing, valuing and understanding with regard to Indigenous health practice.
Understand the importance of reciprocity and exchange with Indigenous communities and engage in opportunities to give back to communities in return for contributing to resident’s learning opportunity.
Demonstrate authentic, supportive and inclusive behaviour in all exchanges with Indigenous individuals and communities.