ID-5184 Wonca Abstracts supplement A-K 13-10-23 - Flipbook - Page 100
WONCA 2023 Supplement 1: WONCA 2023 abstracts (A–K)
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A culturally safe general practice consultation:
First Nations’ voice
Dr Kay Brumpton1,2,6, Raelene Ward5, Rebecca Evans2,3,4, Prof Tarun Sen Gupta2
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Rural Medical Education Australia, 2James Cook University, 3Anton Breinl Research Centre for Health
Systems Strengthening, 4Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, 5University of Southern
Queensland, 6Griffith University
Assessment of cultural safety in general practice consultations for First Nation patients is complex.
Assessment needs to be based on community-derived definitions of cultural safety. As such, cultural
safety must be determined by First Nations peoples. However, current community-derived definitions
of cultural safety are very broad and, while describing cultural safety, do not provide specific or
measurable attributes to guide registrar assessment. This risks registrar ‘knowing, doing and being’
culturally safe care being intangible.
Assessment must also be considerate of defined components of cultural safety, educational theory
and how social, historical and political determinants of health and wellbeing impact upon the cultural
safety of a consultation. Given this complexity, we assume that no single method of assessment will be
adequate to determine if general practice registrars are demonstrating or delivering culturally safe care.
Purpose/objectives
The presentation will overview the complexity of assessing cultural safety in general practice
consultations and introduce findings from a research project exploring how Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander patients perceive cultural safety in general practice. Participants will have the opportunity to
ask questions and discuss how the findings might shape the development of an assessment tool for
cultural safety in general practice consultations.
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