Patient and Provider Empowerment through Critical Education around Structural Drivers of Diabetes in Indigenous People
Posted on January 3, 2019Event Date : 2019-01-10
Time : 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Location : NOSM at Lakehead University – MSW 1011 NOSM at Laurentian University – MSE 107
Patient and Provider Empowerment through Critical Education around Structural Drivers of Diabetes in Indigenous People: Insights from the Educating for Equity Project
With Rita Henderson, PhD
Thursday, January 10, 2019
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
NOSM at Lakehead University – MSW Room 1011
NOSM at Laurentian University – MSE Room 107
Presentation will be live at the Lakehead campus. Lunch will be provided.
Rita Isabel Henderson, PhD, is a social scientist by training and assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine. As a models of care scientist, her research program focuses on mobilizing health services and systems change for health equity, with particular focus on Indigenous health.
Learning Objectives for this seminar are:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify opportunity within the clinical interaction to address health and health care inequities that Indigenous people experience as result of colonization;
- Recognize how Indigenous peoples’ culture can facilitate potential for improved clinical outcomes through fostering of clinical relationships and patient capacity to engage with diabetes care;
- Connect with clinical practice guidelines for novel diabetes management with Indigenous people.
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by the Continuing Education and Professional Development Office at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine for up to 1.00 Mainpro+ credits.
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