available to them to affect change and contribute to producing a culturally safe health workforce. This session will focus on the role of accreditation, as a regulatory tool, in improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes. Understanding the role accreditation plays in improving Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and/or Māori health outcomes and producing a culturally safe workforce, is an area of focus for the Health Professions Accreditation Collaborative Forum (the Forum). Through a thematic review across all accredited health profession programs in Australia and New Zealand the Forum is developing a baseline data set which determines the extent to which health practitioner programs are: supporting students identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and/or Māori; and producing future health practitioners who are culturally safe. The history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner profession which came to be regulated in 2012, and how regulators, the community and other health professions can support, work alongside, and learn from, this profession will also be discussed. 14:30 Poroporoaki / Farewell 14:45 16:30 International Professional Networking – Attendees are encouraged to stay after the formal conclusion of the event to network with colleagues.
available to them to affect change and contribute to producing a culturally safe health workforce. This session will focus on the role of accreditation, as a regulatory tool, in improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health outcomes. Understanding the role accreditation plays in improving Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and/or Māori health outcomes and producing a culturally safe workforce, is an area of focus for the Health Professions Accreditation Collaborative Forum (the Forum). Through a thematic review across all accredited health profession programs in Australia and New Zealand the Forum is developing a baseline data set which determines the extent to which health practitioner programs are: supporting students identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander and/or Māori; and producing future health practitioners who are culturally safe. The history of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner profession which came to be regulated in 2012, and how regulators, the community and other health professions can support, work alongside, and learn from, this profession will also be discussed. 14:30 Poroporoaki / Farewell 14:45 – 16:30 International Professional Networking Attendees are encouraged to stay after the formal conclusion of the event to network with colleagues.
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