Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 24

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Nova Scotia"

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August 16, 2024


Open-Access, No-cost Anti-Colonial Learning Resource Offers Art to Transform Healthcare Systems Across Canada

NationTalk: Lheidli T’enneh Territory, Prince George, BC – The Hearts-based Education and Anti-colonial Learning in Healthcare (H.E.A.L. Healthcare) Project unlocks the potential of arts and humanities to disrupt longstanding and well-established health disparities. Starting from the premise that healthcare is both an art and a science, H.E.A.L. Healthcare uses poetry, storytelling, visual arts, and other...

May 6, 2024


Ensuring incoming cohorts of medical students better represent the diversity of Indigenous communities in Canada

Nicholas Brisebois and Nicole Cardinal NationTalk: May 6, 2024 CMAJ April 29, 2024 196 (16) E563-E565; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.231272  KEY POINTS It has become increasingly evident that First Nations people living on reserves and Indigenous people from rural and Northern communities have a substantially lower chance of getting into medical school in Canada than their urban counterparts. This often unappreciated disparity likely contributes...

December 14, 2022


New Indigenous cultural safety training for health-care providers

COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS & SURGEONS OF NOVA SCOTIA A new online course called To Know Better is to Do Better: Translating Indigenous Knowledge to Health Practice for Health-Care Providers in Nova Scotia is now available. The six-module online course will teach health-care providers how to create culturally safe environments for Indigenous patients in their clinics and offices....