Training offered by the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA)
The UBC 23-24 Indigenous Cultural Safety interdisciplinary learning experience was launched this month as a required component for students in dental hygiene, dentistry, dietetics, genetic counselling, medicine, nursing, midwifery, occupational therapy, pharmacy, physical therapy, and social work. Next year, students in audiology and speech language pathology will also take part. The students will then be better prepared to work in B.C., where embedding cultural safety in the health-care system has long been a goal of the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). In 2015, The Ministry of Health and six other health authorities joined the FNHA to declare their commitments to it. Earlier this year, 23 colleges that regulate B.C.’s health-care professions did the same. (UBC News)