April 2025 Invited Speaker Rounds

Listening, Reflecting and Imagining: The Path Ahead For Indigenous Medical Education

Lisa Richardson, MD, MA, FRCPC

Associate Dean, Inclusion and Diversity and Acting Vice Dean, Strategy
Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
Strategic Lead, Indigenous Health, Women’s College Hospital

Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Time: 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Hybrid: IRC Room 414 & Zoom*

Zoom Details: For connection details, please email ches.communications@ubc.ca.

Abstract

This presentation will explore Indigenous medical education in Canada through a rights-based and a reconciliation-based framework, through the historical lens of key movements related to Indigenous knowledges within the academy. What are the ontological and epistemological tensions that emerge at the intersection of Indigenous knowledges in non-Indigenous institutions? How can they generate new approaches to healthcare and healthcare education for Indigenous learners, practitioners, patients and communities? How can approaches from Indigenous arts and pedagogies reconfigure and reimagine Indigenous medical education?

Biography

Dr. Lisa Richardson practises General Internal Medicine at the Toronto General Hospital and is the Associate Dean, Inclusion and Diversity; as well as Acting Vice Dean, Strategy, at the University of Toronto’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine.  She is an education researcher at the Wilson Centre with a scholarly focus on how to integrate Indigenous and critical perspectives from the social sciences into medical education.  Dr. Richardson is the Strategic Lead in Indigenous Health for Women’s College Hospital where she founded Ganawishkadawe – The Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health.  She is on Council of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and co-chairs the Royal College’s Indigenous Health Committee. Lisa is also a founding executive member of the National Consortium for Indigenous Medical Education and belongs to the Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada.


Accredited by UBC CPD The Division of Continuing Professional Development, University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine (UBC CPD) is fully accredited by the Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee (CACME) to provide CPD credits for physicians. This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been certified by UBC CPD for up to 15 Mainpro+® credits. Each physician should claim only those credits accrued through participation in the activity. CFPC Session ID: 203168-001 

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