How can non-Indigenous doctors work through the discomfort of their own privilege to provide culturally appropriate and safe care to Indigenous communities.

Working for Indigenous communities is an extraordinary experience and privilege for non-Indigenous doctors. For those of us who have established our careers in this context, we work hard to provide a culturally safe and appropriate environment for our patients and our Indigenous colleagues. But, the question arises, how much have we leaned into the discomfort of our own privilege and the racism that our colleagues face on a daily basis, especially within the health care system.

This often becomes a situation of the more you know, the more you realise you don’t know… and this usually doesn’t sit comfortably in the settler/colonial population.

As career Rural Generalists and leaders in our rural and remote organisations we want to contribute to creating a better health system for Indigenous patients and health worker colleagues. This workshop will probably make you feel uncomfortable in facing your own contribution to the racism in our health system, but through the generosity of Indigenous colleagues you can learn how to dismantle the racism in our system to enable it to be beneficial to everyone.