TY - JOUR
T1 - Yindyamarra Winhanganha: a Conduit to Indigenous Cultural Proficiency
AU - Currie, Geoff
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The First Nations peoples in the United States, Canada,
Australia, and around the world are substantially disadvantaged by
colonialization, including health inequity. For nuclear medicine, the
cultural competence of the staff and cultural proficiency of the
institution are important minimum expectations. This minimum can be
achieved through a scaffold of Indigenous cultural training and
immersion programs that allow the nuclear medicine department to be a
culturally safe environment for Indigenous patients. Development of such
programs requires careful planning and inclusivity of Indigenous people
as the key stakeholders but, done appropriately, can positively drive
the Indigenous equity pipeline. Central to this undertaking is an
understanding of Indigenous ways of learning and the nexus of these ways
of learning and learning taxonomies. There remain substantial gaps
between the most culturally insightful and the least culturally
insightful (individuals and institutions)—gaps that can be addressed, in
part, by rich immersive professional development activities in nuclear
medicine targeting cultural proficiency and creating culturally safe
clinical environments. The opportunity lies before us to provide
leadership in nation building and in yindyamarra winhanganha: living respectfully while creating a world worth living in.
AB - The First Nations peoples in the United States, Canada,
Australia, and around the world are substantially disadvantaged by
colonialization, including health inequity. For nuclear medicine, the
cultural competence of the staff and cultural proficiency of the
institution are important minimum expectations. This minimum can be
achieved through a scaffold of Indigenous cultural training and
immersion programs that allow the nuclear medicine department to be a
culturally safe environment for Indigenous patients. Development of such
programs requires careful planning and inclusivity of Indigenous people
as the key stakeholders but, done appropriately, can positively drive
the Indigenous equity pipeline. Central to this undertaking is an
understanding of Indigenous ways of learning and the nexus of these ways
of learning and learning taxonomies. There remain substantial gaps
between the most culturally insightful and the least culturally
insightful (individuals and institutions)—gaps that can be addressed, in
part, by rich immersive professional development activities in nuclear
medicine targeting cultural proficiency and creating culturally safe
clinical environments. The opportunity lies before us to provide
leadership in nation building and in yindyamarra winhanganha: living respectfully while creating a world worth living in.
KW - nuclear medicine
KW - social asymmetry
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - diversity
KW - equity
KW - equality
UR - https://tech.snmjournals.org/authors
U2 - https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.121.262436
DO - https://doi.org/10.2967/jnmt.121.262436
M3 - Article
VL - 50
SP - 66
EP - 72
JO - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
JF - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
SN - 0091-4916
IS - 1
ER -