IHSE MEETING
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Thirusha Naidu
Settler colonial spectres in global health professions education, training and scholarship
ABSTRACT
It has been established that medical education research and scholarship is shaped by colonially founded epistemology. Less attention has been focused on how a history of colonialism continues to manifest in HP education training and scholarship in settler colonial and previously colonised countries. Concentrating on countries previously colonised by the British empire I explore contexts and expressions of settler colonialism in medical education. I explore the effects of colonialism on the future of global health professions, global migration patterns of health professionals and the implications of globally diverse training and accreditation criteria in the health professions.
OBJECTIVES
- To become aware of how settler colonialism influences HP education, training and scholarship, accreditation standards and global leadership. - REALISING
- To explore the impact of global migration patterns of health professionals on the future of training, scholarship and leadership in HP education RECLAIMING
- To imagine how the current global sociopolitical climate will influence the future of HP education training and scholarship. RE-VERSING
Thirusha Naidu (MClin Psych PhD)
Thirusha is Canada Research Chair in Equity and Social Justice in Medical Education and Associate Professor at the Department for Innovation in Medical Education (DIME) at the University of Ottawa. She is Honorary Senior Visiting Fellow to the Department of Public Health and Primary Care University of Cambridge and Associate Professor in Psychiatry at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Thirusha is a clinical psychologist who trained in apartheid era South Africa. Inspired to give voice and make space for women of colour in research and health she uses research poetry as a method for deep reflexivity in research. Her research references critical and theoretical perspectives on health and health professions education through decolonial and feminist theories. Her clinical work in South Africa focused on psychotherapy for severe mental disorders and the mental health of healthcare workers. Thirusha’s current research focus areas include Health Professions and Health Sciences Education and Global Health knowledge production in the contexts of mental health and infectious diseases. Her writing appears in Academic Medicine, The Lancet, The BMJ and Advances in Health Sciences Education. She was 2019 Karolinska Institutet Prize in Medical Education Fellow.
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Maryam Wagner, PhD
IHSE Discussion Session