Alhgoh: A new Indigenous cultural safety learning opportunity

Developed by UBC Continuing Professional Development (UBC CPD) and the First Nations Health Authority, the course is designed to support healthcare providers and teams in moving from learning and reflection into everyday practice.

Bringing cultural safety into practice

BC’s health system has formally recognized Indigenous-specific racism and introduced professional standards for Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility and Anti-Racism. Meeting these standards asks us to move beyond awareness and consider how learning translates into our day-to-day practice.

What does culturally safe care look like in our day-to-day interactions with patients? How do our own perspectives and experiences shape the way we provide care? And where do we have opportunities to address power imbalances and Indigenous-specific racism within our practices and the broader healthcare system?

Alhgoh creates space to explore these questions while building practical skills you can bring into your work.

Across five lessons, you’ll explore the ongoing impacts of colonialism and Indigenous-specific racism on health and healthcare experiences, self-reflective practice, trauma- and violence-informed approaches, respectful communication, connection to land, culture and community, and opportunities to advance anti-racist practice.

Free, online and self-paced

The course takes approximately four hours, and you can work through it at your own pace.

It’s open to physicians, specialists, nurse practitioners, nurses, pharmacists, other care providers and non-clinical staff – making it an opportunity for both individual and team learning.

Alhgoh is a word used in Dakelh and neighbouring Wet’suwet’en languages meaning “together as one, together as a community.” The name reflects the relationality and collective responsibility at the heart of the course and this ongoing learning.

Physicians can claim up to 4.0 Mainpro+® Certified Activity credits or 4.0 Royal College Section 3 hours, as applicable.