Equity Grand Rounds: Anti-Indigenous Racism in Healthcare

Hosted by the DFCM Education Programs in partnership with the Office of Inclusion and Diversity at Temerty Medicine

Building on the 2022 Grand Rounds on Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Medical Education, the Equity Grand Rounds series is designed to deepen DFCM education offerings related to Equity, Diversity, Indigeneity, Inclusion, Accessibility, and Anti-Racism (EDIIAA).

Sessions are open to all DFCM faculty, staff and learners.

Presented by

• Elder Diane Longboat, Educator and Founder of First Nations House at the University of Toronto, Senior Manager Strategic Initiatives, Shkaabe Makwa, CAMH
• Members of the Indigenous Leadership Circle with DFCM
  • Dr. Janet Smylie
  • Dr. Sarah Park
  • Dr. Joel Voth
  • Panel Moderated by DFCM Chair Dr. Danielle Martin

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Educational objectives

• Understand some of the particular challenges for First Nations, Inuit, & Métis (FNIM) communities in accessing and receiving high-quality primary care, particularly in urban communities
• Understand how community resilience plays a role in health protection for FNIM communities
• Identify effective strategies for promoting cultural safety in primary care and family medicine education
• Answer the question: Where does racism live in primary care and hospital settings?
• Learn about what the DFCM is doing to address anti-Indigenous racism in healthcare
• Hear about the experiences of Indigenous learners and learn best practices to improve these experiences

About the speakers

• Kahontakwas Diane Longboat is a citizen of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan and lives and works at Six Nations Grand River Territory. She has three degrees in education from U of T and has worked at the convergence of health, education and traditional Indigenous healing systems for the past 50 years in systems evolution to serve the needs of First Nations, Inuit and Metis. She is the founder of First Nations House at U of T and Soul of the Mother, a healing/teaching lodge at Six Nations. Diane works at CAMH to bring culture across the hospital in policy and clinical practice, building design and function and care pathways.
• Dr. Smylie is director of the Well Living House (www.welllivinghouse.com) at St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto; Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Advancing Generative Health Services for Indigenous Populations in Canada; and professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health and DFCM, Faculty of Medicine, U of T. Her research is focused on addressing Indigenous health inequities in partnership with Indigenous communities. She has practiced and taught family medicine in diverse First Nations, Inuit and Metis community contexts for 30 years. A Métis woman, Dr. Smylie acknowledges her family, traditional teachers and ceremonial lodge. 
• Dr. Sarah Park is a family physician and U of T graduate of the MD Program and the DFCM. She is a member of the Indigenous Leadership Circle at U of T's DFCM as Education Lead. Her clinical work is in providing primary care to Indigenous populations in urban and remote settings across Ontario. Dr. Park's background is settler (English/Irish) and Qalipu First Nation from Newfoundland and Labrador. 
• Dr. Joel Voth is a proud member of the Métis Nation of Manitoba and 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Joel is an addiction medicine physician working with people who use substances in Toronto. Joel has also been actively engaged in Indigenous medical education at the local and national levels through his work with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, U of T’s Indigenous Leadership Circle and the National Circle for Indigenous Medical Education.

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