Exploring Theme: "Medical Organization Commitment"

A look back at the early impacts of seed2STEM, an innovative UBC summer research program for Indigenous youth in B.C.  Former seed2STEM participant Dean Harris (far right) with colleagues from ICORD’s Orthopaedic and Injury Biomechanics Group. Credit: Martin Dee/ICORD. NationTalk: University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine – The seed2STEM summer research program recently received...

NationTalk: The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) is meeting with Indigenous leaders, organizations and communities across the country as part of our path to a public apology, on behalf of the CMA and as the national voice of physicians, for the medical harms caused to First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples. These conversations are opportunities for...

NationTalk: Ottawa, Ontario – We, the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN), wish to express our deepest regret, apologizing to the First Nations, Inuit, and Métis peoples of Canada for harms, historical or contemporary, related to nursing education. We acknowledge that too often, access to nursing education has been inequitable and unjust for Indigenous Peoples. We...

NationTalk: Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) issued a statement today announcing the release of a bold and courageous strategic plan for 2023–2028 and identifying the changes needed to ensure delivery of quality nursing education in Canada. The plan includes the following CASN objectives: Schools of nursing face significant funding barriers. Enrolments...

NationTalk: In 2015, Ted Quewezance spoke on the floor of the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) annual meeting, the first residential school survivor to address that gathering in its more than 150-year history. In a speech that brought many to tears (including me), Ted talked about Indigenous Peoples reaching out to the Canadian physicians, hoping that they would...

Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing is the national voice for nursing education, research, and scholarship and represents baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs in Canada. Strategic Plan 2019 – 2023 One of their 5 core objectives is: Advance leading practices, equity, and the national response to the TRC Calls to Action in nursing education and scholarship....

Founded in 1943, the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) represents Canada’s 17 faculties of medicine and is the voice of academic medicine in this country. Our member faculties graduate over 2,700 MDs per year; teach over 11,500 undergraduate medical students; train over 15,000 postgraduate trainees; employ nearly 48,000 full and part-time faculty...

The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada will soon require all residency programs to provide Indigenous health and cultural safety training. Few programs are prepared or know what that training should include, according to medical educators at the recent Indigenous Health Conference in Toronto. Indigenous people often face racism and ignorance in health...