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From: Indigenous health: designing a clinical orientation program valued by learners

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Thematic schema. The indigenous health curriculum was conceptualized as an interaction between learner, faculty, and indigenous health, which defined appropriate and flexible pedagogical techniques embedded within an indigenous world view. Learners experienced multiple teaching strategies that were specific to indigenous health and were aimed at maximizing clinical relevance. Learners valued course content delivered in an authentic environment and that explicitly reframed historical notions of health determinants. Relevant content, faculty knowledge, and strengthened peer-support and relationships combined to enable learners to interact with simulated indigenous patients in a way that built clinical confidence and self-reported competencies

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