The British Columbia First Nations Health Authority reminds us that “cultural humility involves humbling acknowledging oneself as a learner when it comes to understanding another’s experience.” The commitment to active engagement, reflective practice, and lifelong learning has the potential to redefine the outcomes of culturally-focused physician training, rebalance the power dynamics between physicians and patients, and to influence the quality of healthcare provided to a variety of communities, including Indigenous peoples, new Canadians and refugees, and those from a variety of diaspora.
The Creating Space moniker evokes several meanings. It creates space for the humanities in health care. It also reflects the creative approaches at the heart of the humanities. With thousands of papers now generated on the multi-dimensional process of cultural humility in the medical and allied health literature, we now also recognize the way in which the conference’s name inspires us to also consider how the humanities help us create space for each other. To this end, Creating Space IX seeks to answer this question:
How can humanities-based methodologies assist health professional learners and practitioners to develop cultural humility?
In doing so, we invite papers and panel presentations that address the following topics:
· Cultural humility in Canadian and international medical/allied health practice with regards to racial, sexual, gender, religious, and disability identities.
· Health humanities methods to inculcate the process of cultural humility (i.e., narrative, improvisational theatre, music, art, digital engagement, etc.)
· The suitability of the humanities for meeting the special challenges that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents for practicing with cultural humility
with respect to Indigenous populations.
· Special challenges for cultural humility with respect to immigrant and refugee populations.
· Cultural humility within normative culture.
· How can a scholarly humanities approach inform, assist, and radically transform contemporary Canadian health humanities pedagogy?
· The suitability of humanities-based methodologies for transitioning practitioners from outcome-based thinking to process-based thinking.
The Creating Space conference has always been open to exciting off-topic work that does not strictly adhere to theme. Accordingly, we also invite submissions in an open format but advise
that the number of spaces allotted to off-topic contributions will be limited.
Target Audience: CSIX seeks to include scholars, educations, artists and practitioners whose work involves in the intersection of the arts, humanities, and social science (AHSS) disciplines and health professions.
1.To provide a space to explore, contemplate, and consider the meaning of “cultural humility”.
2. Explore how humanities-based methodologies can inform our understanding of cultural humility.
3. To enable attendees to foster and encourage the adoption of non-biomedical techniques in medical education.
4. To give attendees the means with which to form partnerships with medical and humanities communities in their individual environments.
Types of proposals:
Recognizing the emerging role of AHSS approaches and interdisciplinary scholarship, Creating Space IX
offers authors the opportunity to display creatively their research and educational achievements, experiences and thoughts.
Abstracts may be presented in the form of:
· Research presentation: 20 minutes (15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions)
· Novel humanities educational experiences: 20 minutes (15 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions)
· Panel presentation: 45 minutes (30 minutes plus 15 minutes for questions)
· Workshop: 90 minutes (maximum of 25% didactic teaching).
· Pecha Kucha: 20 slides with 20 seconds each slide
· Performance: 30 minutes
· Poster/display presentations
FOR ATTENDEES OF CCME IN NIAGARA FALLS: A SHUTTLE WILL BE AVAILABLE TO TRANSPORT YOU TO CCME UPON THE CONCLUSION OF CREATING SPACE.
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