Celebrating Indigenous Physicians in BC: Cultural Safety and Anti-Racism from Indigenous Physicians’ Perspectives

In honour of the 20th anniversary of the UBC Faculty of Medicine’s Indigenous Pathway program, this webinar will celebrate the successes of Indigenous physicians working across the province. Through storytelling and practical advice, you will share successes with alumni of the program, learn about the importance of cultural safety and how to incorporate this into your medical practice.

CONNECTION DETAILS

Prior to the webinar, you will receive an email from UBC CPD with connection details. If you do not receive this email, please check your spam folders. You should add “@ubc.ca” to your safe sender list. If you do not see the connection email, please contact us.

ASK QUESTIONS

• The Question & Answer page is OPEN NOW — we encourage you to submit your questions early.
• Go to https://www.sli.do/ and enter the event ID #culturalsafety. Or go directly to https://app.sli.do/event/wFKxkEdSdxc5vb2PpLMKGA 
• Type out your question in the ‘type your question’ field and click ‘SEND’. You will see your question posted and you will be able to review questions that others have asked. Your questions can be asked anonymously, just leave your name out when posting your questions.
• Up-vote: feel free to click the thumbs-up icon beside the questions you like as this will move those questions to the top of the queue.
• Questions will be reviewed by the moderator and relayed to the presenters before the session and during the Q&A period.

AUDIENCE

Family physicians, nurse practitioners, specialist physicians, residents, students and others interested in the topic.

KEY SPEAKERS

• Dr. Elder Roberta Price
• Dr. Cassandra Felske-Durksen
• Dr. Randi George
• Dr. Brent Jim
• Dr. Miles March
• Moderator: Dr. Randal Mason

SKILLS GAINED

• After attending this webinar you will be able to:
• Describe cultural safety and anti-racism from Indigenous perspectives;
• Appraise your clinic/work setting’s approach to cultural safety; 
• Apply practical steps to improve the cultural safety in your clinic/work setting; and
• Engage your Indigenous patients and their families in culturally safe relationships.

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