Indigenous Patient Led CPD

Indigenous Patient Led CPD

The Indigenous Patient Led (IPL) CPD Program aims to improve Indigenous health outcomes by increasing access to culturally safe care for Indigenous Peoples and communities in rural and remote BC. The program supports rural health professionals to develop their sense of cultural humility and capacity to deliver care that is culturally safe and trauma-sensitive by co-creating and delivering Nation-specific education content in partnership with Indigenous Elders and patients.  

Education may include workshops, learning circles, digital materials or other types of education, depending on the community’s preference. Past trainings have addressed cultural safety, local Indigenous history, culture and land, intergenerational trauma, experiences with health care, and access and barriers to services. 

Guiding Principles
Working together with Indigenous Nations and communities, rural physicians and health professionals to foster cultural humility, address systemic anti-Indigenous racism and improve the health of Indigenous peoples. Community and patient voices drive this work. Recognizing and dismantling systemic oppression, colonization and individual bias. Building and strengthening relationships between Indigenous Nations and physician communities by creating opportunities for learning, self-reflection and dialogue. 

About Us

We are an Elder-led group that includes both Indigenous and non-Indigenous members working together to increase Cultural Safety and Humility in rural BC by building relationships with and between Indigenous communities and physician groups.
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Education

Everyone who provides health care for Indigenous patients must understand the impacts of trauma and the options for building relationships with people who live with individual and intergenerational trauma.
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