Cultural Education
The Hard Questions: A Cultural Mentor Series
The ‘Hard Questions’ is a series of short videos filled with practical advice, ‘Do’s and Don’ts’, and local experiences from JCU Cultural Mentors based at Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) across northern Queensland.
The topics of these videos have come directly from registrars involved in JCU’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Awareness Training. In these videos, JCU Cultural Mentors based at Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHOs) across northern Queensland provide responses from their perspectives and relevant to their home Communities.
Special thanks to those involved on the project:
- Project lead JCU General Practice and Rural Medicine Cultural Educator Henry Neill
- The Cultural Mentors who were involved in the video project.
- The JCU Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Team for their support of the project: Associate Professor Catrina Felton Busch, Dr Jacinta Power, Marcy Holdsworth, Raphael Rial, and Andy Gavin for the camera and editing work.
We hope ‘The Hard Questions’ series will support registrars on their general practice training journey and in delivering culturally safe and appropriate care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients and communities.
Watch the video series by clicking on the links below.
- Making Indigenous patients feel welcomed
- Treating patients all the same
- 'How can I tell if a patient is Indigenous?'
- Making eye contact with Indigenous patients
- The best way to introduce yourself - part 1
- The best way to introduce yourself - Part 2
- Preferred language when prescribing medication
- Female doctors treating Indigenous male patients
- Patients not attending appointments
- Patients identifying as Stolen Generation
- Showing empathy for patients identifying as Stolen Generation
- Shaking hands and other greetings
- Referring a patient or treating them in-house
- The difference between AMS and GP
- Managing new AMS clients
- Understanding the difference between an ACCHS and general practice
- Patients Hearing Voices
- Benefits of a med student on placement at an ACCHS - Part 1
- Benefits of a med student on placement at an ACCHS - Part 2
- Benefits of a med student on placement at an ACCHS - Part 3
- Benefits of a med student on placement at an ACCHS - Part 4
- Does everyone know everyone in Indigenous Communities?
- Is 'Closing the Gap' working?
- 'Why can't Indigenous Australians adapt?'
- Implications of the Act on family history
- How to find Traditional Custodians
- Is there a policy on identifying as Indigenous?
- 'Is your Country where you were born or somewhere else?'
- Defining terms for family relations
- Using Indigenous accents
- Calling Aboriginal People 'Murri'
- Can non-Indigenous people acknowledge Country?
- What is an Elder?
- Torres Strait Islanders and their flag
- Sorry Business and Sad News
- Reaching out to Traditional Healers