Two clinics elevate experience for Indigenous learners in medicine – Dal News
September 19, 2024
Fourth-year medical student Jordin Fletcher hadn’t met a practicing Indigenous physician until she encountered Dr. Brent Young in 2021 when she began medical school as an Indigenous learner.
She had been working as a nurse for five years.
Dr. Shanté Blackmore, a recent family medicine graduate who grew up in Millbrook First Nation, hadn’t worked with an Indigenous preceptor — an experienced practitioner who provides supervision during clinical practice — her entire medical training.
In the spring, this all changed.
For the first time, they found themselves working side-by-side with an Indigenous staff physician.
