poche centre for indigenous health & wellbeing alice springs, school of medicine flinders nt
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Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing Alice Springs, School of Medicine Flinders NT. Poche Alice Springs. Professor Della Yarnold (Director – on extended leave) Professor Dean Carson 0.1 Ms Colleen Hayes 1.0 Aboriginal Cultural Educator - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & WellbeingAlice Springs, School of Medicine
Flinders NT
Poche Alice Springs• Professor Della Yarnold (Director – on extended leave)• Professor Dean Carson 0.1 • Ms Colleen Hayes 1.0 Aboriginal Cultural Educator• Mr John Reid 0.5 PhD Candidate, 0.5 Indigenous Research • Dr Kerry Taylor, 1.0 Senior Research Fellow, Acting Deputy
Director• Ms Maria Thompson 1.0 Aboriginal Research Officer, • Ms Annette McCarthy casual Aboriginal Research Officer,
attached to Faculty Grant Research, end June 2013• ?, 1.0 Administration Officer, position vacant 19/4/2013
Poche Alice Springs coverage
Alice SpringsTennant CreekKatherineNhulunbuy
Strategic objectives• Preparation of culturally safe health workforces• Aboriginal health literacy – incl. workforce• Professional/patient communication• Incorporation of Indigenous knowledges • Early childhood issues (incorporating Foetal
Alcohol Spectrum Disorder [FASD]) • Mental health/well-being• Chronic condition co-management- renal,
diabetes
Poche Scholarships
Poche Scholarships - to assist a mature student, with significant family responsibilities, to successfully pursue a Faculty of Health Sciences degree.
NTMP – Aboriginal student Year 3, 4
Higher degree student- Maree Meredith
Poche Scholarships
Poche Teaching • Year 3/4 medical Cultural Safety sessions• CRH Remote Health Programs – Cultural safety, Historical
Overview, Intercultural Communications• Poche Adelaide Cultural Safety Workshop, Medical First Years• CLIC students, RUSC students• Medicare Locals – Cultural Safety for GP services• ED, ICU, RFDS • WDNWPT, Waltja, Amity• MHACA –cultural safety perspective to Suicide Story Training • Development of teaching materials for the medical curriculum• Invited Presentations/ Seminars delivered by Poche staff
Poche Research• Scoping education curricula Indigenous content• Faculty grant Teaching Cultural Safety• Suicide Referral Pathway • Health literacy project – dementia grant pending• Purple House Cookbook for renal patients and family• ‘Changing short term populations in rural and remote South
Australia and the Northern Territory’ • ‘Future Change in Ancient Worlds: Indigenous adaptation to
climate change in Northern Australia’ • ‘Demographic and Social Change in the Northern Territory..
‘Flexible Career Pathways for an Aboriginal Health Workforce’
Current Student Involvement• Colleen Hayes Grad. Dip Remote Health Management• John Reid, PhD Candidate• Maree Meredith, PhD Candidate• Josephein Zwart, PhD Candidate
• Emanjilli Marie PhD Bendigo• Alice Kemble PhD Candidate USyd• Anthea Brand, PhD Candidate
Teaching & learning from each other: Cultural Safety
Ms Colleen Hayes, & Dr Kerry Taylor, Poche Centre for Indigenous Health & Wellbeing, Alice Springs
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Indigenous Teaching
HolisticImmersion
Hands-on,Visual,
practicallearning
Country, Lore,
Language
LeadershipRelationshpPartnership
KinshipRespect &
Responsibility
Elders
Western Academic Teaching
Terminology related to context
ScholarshipDidactic
Discourse
Informed by Multiple
worldviews
Expertise, qualifications
Theoreticalabstract
ResearchInquiring
& analytical
Publications 2012-current
• Dementia Report• Dementia Article• Indigenous Mind• Cultural safety in Suicide Prevention• Suicide Attempt referral pathways• Towards systematic data collection
Consultations/Collaboration• CRH teaching & research
– MHACA Suicide Story – adding Cultural Safety Perspectives
– MHACA Suicide referral pathway– Dementia grant – shared language of dementia
• WDNWPT – health literacy, cultural safety, audit tool, cookbook
• ICU Communication DVD• ACEM Indigenous curriculum - resources
Other Publications
Taylor & Guerin 2010Palgrave-Macmillan
2nd Edition 2014
Committees• Flinders NT Expert Evaluation Committee• CAHREC• FCOATSIH• ACEM Indigenous Health Curriculum• Indigenous Reference Group• Kidney Action Network
Two cultures collaborating in a culturally safe way