Navigating the burden of proof and responsibility: A narrative inquiry into Indigenous medical learners' experiences.
Journal
Medical education
ISSN: 1365-2923
Titre abrégé: Med Educ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 7605655
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2023
06 2023
Historique:
revised:
23
11
2022
received:
02
08
2022
accepted:
06
12
2022
medline:
12
5
2023
pubmed:
11
12
2022
entrez:
10
12
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Many medical schools have well-established admission pathways and programming to support Indigenous medical workforce development. Ideally, these efforts should contribute to attracting highly qualified Indigenous applicants which, in turn, may improve accessible, quality care for Indigenous people. However, it is difficult to evolve and tailor these approaches without a situated understanding of Indigenous learners' experiences. In this paper, we focus on the Canadian context, sharing Indigenous learners' stories about their journey towards and throughout medical training. The conceptual underpinnings of narrative inquiry and key principles from Indigenous methodologies were drawn upon throughout both data collection and analysis. Participants were Indigenous learners (medical students and residents) and a recently graduated physician (n = 5) from one Canadian medical school. Both spoken (formal recorded interviews) and visual (photographs) texts were used to make meaning of participants' experiences. Participants' experiences during medical training showed a striking resemblance at three points in their transition to, and progression through, medical education: preparing for and applying to medical school, completing undergraduate medical training and determining specialty choice. Participants' stories revealed a tug-of-war between their identities as an Indigenous person and as a medical trainee, with these tensions sometimes compromising their perceived sense of belonging within both Indigenous and academic circles, creating, at times, a heavy burden to shoulder. Meaningful representation of Indigenous people in the medical workforce is about more than training additional health care providers; it requires understanding Indigenous learners and recently graduated physicians' experiences as they enter and navigate the medical profession. By amplifying their voices, we stand to gain a more holistic representation of the factors that contribute to and potentially impede the recruitment and retention of Indigenous people into the medical profession.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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IM
Pagination
556-565Informations de copyright
© 2022 Association for the Study of Medical Education and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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