Actions and Commitments: Call to Action # 24

Exploring Stakeholder: "Government of Nunavut"

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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...

March 5, 2024


Nunavut-bound doctors now getting cultural training

Health minister calls first round of training delivered in February ‘a success’ Health Minister John Main says doctors planning to practice in Nunavut are receiving cultural competency training. (File photo) NationTalk: Nunatsiaq News – Doctors who come to work in Nunavut are now required to receive cultural competency training, according to Health Minister John Main....