Decolonising the curriculum: stimulating debate Purpose The student unrest around fee increases and fee- . Teaching in Higher Education, 21(4), pp.415-428. Published 22 February 2021. The Decolonising the Medical Curriculum Reading List is an example of a working document created by the collaboration of students on SoMe. Through their curricula, medical schools often aim to produce a certain type of doctor: one who aligns with professional expectations and who preserves and upholds established norms. Institutions must work with students to bring about positive changes to the medical curriculum, say Abigail Clynch, Jayden Gittens, and Portia Amoako-Tawiah. 9 February 2021 10:58 A visual representation of the 'decolonisation tool'. A truly diverse, global curriculum and anti-racist learning environment . Decolonising the curriculum requires a critical interrogation of the assumptions and limits of the curriculum as it stands, and gives us an opportunity to broaden our thinking and include a wider . As clinical academics at a London medical school, we have run two university grant funded public engagement events on "liberating" (diversifying) and "decolonising" the undergraduate medical curriculum. If you want to learn more about decolonising the medical curriculum check out www.medicreads.co.uk or for a great place to start give these three books a read: Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini. The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan Metzl. Decolonising the Medical Curriculum was an public engagement event held on 18 April 2018, at the Whittington UCL Lecture Theatre. Three speakers - Dr Michael Tsang, Dr Catherine Gilbert and Dr Patirica Oliart - shared their perspectives on what is meant by decolonising the curriculum, and how their research . Decolonising medical curricula through diversity education: Lessons from students. 4. ERIC is an online library of education research and information, sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education. We've planned an afternoon of quickfire panels, with plenty of public engagement, covering medical education, performance art and history. This . Epub 2014 Aug 26. With the rise in student voices around the world, calling for a decolonisation of learning and teaching, the Department of Education and Social Justice in the School of Education, decided to address these issues upfront.. The truth about . Methods: Fifteen semi-structured, in-depth interviews were carried out with medical students at the University of Southampton. October 12, 2021. . Decolonising the curriculum This article was first published in March 2020. José Rizal: Philippine national hero . In the subsequent days, this story was adapted and reproduced online by multiple news outlets2,3 who chose to preserve quotes from the only . Hawkes S, Rahman-Shepherd A. Decolonising . 2021; 6: e005604. Curriculum contestation in a post-colonial context: A view from the South. In the wake of Black Lives Matter movement, universities are considering decolonising their curricula. • Give credit where credit is deserved - BAME people who have fostered scientific breakthroughs are not noticed. The Southampton medical curriculum includes both models in its diversity teaching, but little was known about which model was dominant or about the students' experience. Patrick Bracken a Independent Psychiatrist, Schull, West Cork, Ireland Correspondence patjbracken@gmail.com, Suman Fernando b The School of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University, London, UK, Decolonising the medical curriculum: psychiatry faces particular challenges. 45 Calls for decolonising the medical curricula have been growing in the last few years. The Southampton medical curriculum includes both models in its diversity teaching, but little was known about which model was dominant or about the students' experience. However, there is now a growing realisation that racist and colonial attitudes underscore much of traditional medical education and that, as well as efforts to root out racist policies and practices, there is also an urgent need to decolonise medical curricula (Hartland and Larkai 2020; Gishen and Lokugamage 2019). If you want to learn more about decolonising the medical curriculum check out www.medicreads.co.uk or for a great place to start give these three books a read: Superior: The Return of Race Science by Angela Saini. Welcome to this podcast series produced by The Race Equality and Anti-Racist Sub-Committee (REAR) at The University of Edinburgh in collaboration with Teaching Matters where we hear from different academics at the University about what Decolonising the Curriculum means for them and how they have put this into practice in their learning and teaching or research. A decolonial approach to medical education, however, calls for the training of doctors who are willing to challenge this status quo, armed with a deep . The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan Metzl. 'Decolonising the Medical Curriculum': Humanising medicine through epistemic pluralism, cultural safety and critical consciousness . 1-24. Colonial thinking runs deep in psychiatry. 59 likes. Join the Faculty of Social & Historical Sciences and Faculty of Arts & Humanities for Decolonising the Curriculum Week 2019. This paper aims to explore decolonising ideas of healing within medical education following recent events including the University College London Medical School's Decolonising the Medical Curriculum public engagement event, the Wellcome Collection's Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine exhibition and its symposium on Decolonising . Abstract / Description. While the arts, humanities and social sciences have traditionally led the charge within the Decolonising the Curriculum movement globally, medical schools have been slow to embrace this approach . What are we calling for? Decolonisation within education can empower all students, giving minority students a greater sense of belonging and engagement and other students a fuller, richer awareness of society, history and help understand and accept differences. • Have you included broader more global learning, geographical bias and historical colonial content in your curriculum and space for decolonising and diversification . "Decolonising" describes an academic movement across universities and other institutions to highlight inequalities resulting from . Further tensions reside in our hopes for decolonising the curriculum. medical education following recent events including the University College London Medical School's Decolonising the Medical Curriculum public engagement event, the Wellcome Collection's Ayurvedic Man: Encounters with Indian Medicine exhibition and its symposium on Decolonising Health, SOAS University of London's The article outlines three scaffolding concepts to frame the process of decolonising the medical curriculum: epistemic pluralism, cultural safety and critical consciousness. This challenge has received very little attention in the recent debates on "decolonising". We urge you to consider how powerful a statement it is to exclude Black skin from medical education, and what narrative this supports. • Improves students' ability to connect with BAME group as future . The decolonising project is about acknowledging this past and addressing its lasting effects. . The Decolonising the curriculum project was set up in March 2020 as a space for reflection and collaboration between staff and students which would in turn promote a more . Bracken, P., Fernando, S., Alsaraf, S., Creed, M., Double, D., Gilberthorpe, T., … Timimi, S. (2021). pp. It ought to challenge the notion that any single worldview . Adina C Gabriela C Roxana-Denisa S Country-of-origin effects on perceived brand positioning Procedia Economics and Finance 2015 23 422 427 10.1016/S2212-5671(15)00383-4 Google Scholar; Arday J Fighting the tide: Understanding the difficulties facing black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) doctoral students' pursuing a career in Academia Educational Philosophy and Theory 2020 10.1080/00131857 . Medical Sociologists are well-positioned to support this work. as, in an African medical curriculum, should univerisities prepare students for the problems of first-world specialists or those of doctors working in poor rural areas? we argue that if it is to really tackle deep-seated racism and decolonise its curriculum, the discipline will need to critically interrogate the origins of some of its fundamental assumptions, values and priorities. Seeking diversification in scholarship from contexts where we have limited experience, we must guard against tokenism or, worse, a new . "It has been a journey to learn and work on Decolonising the Curriculum. There's something for everyone, no matter what your background. The NHS has been plagued by troubling statistics about the disparities in health outcomes among black . A step towards decolonising medical training. White fragility In HELTASA (Higher Education Learning and Teaching Association of South Africa) Conference. • Ensure parts of history are not repeated. Decolonising the curriculum: Re-contextualisation, identity and self-critique in a post-apartheid universityQuinn L. Reimagining Curriculum: Spaces for disruption. Decolonising the medical curriculum: psychiatry faces . 2015 Apr;37(4):385-93. doi: 10.3109/0142159X.2014.947938. Why Decolonize Social Work: 31-Minute Podcast. Keele's Manifesto for Decolonising the Curriculum. This raises issues of meaningful representation of . Arch Ophthalmol. It has been amplified further here in the UK by the 'Rhodes must fall' campaign. Diversifying and decolonising the medical curriculum. Medical Teacher, 37(4), 385 . A renewed call to 'decolonise' the university curriculum has marked a shift in thinking about education and what should form the canon of curriculum content. However, we argue that if it is to re If medical education is to ever create sustainable change, it must challenge the underlying power structures and systemic racism that has silenced these conversations until now. October 18, 2018. Challenge #3: Students' voices must be heard. The role of medical students in student activism: decolonising the medical curriculum. • Give credit where credit is deserved - BAME people who have fostered scientific breakthroughs are not noticed. The Decolonising the Curriculum movement in higher education has been steadily gaining momentum, accelerated by recent global events calling for an appraisal of the intersecting barriers of discrimination that ethnic minorities can encounter. as, in an African medical curriculum, should univerisities prepare students for the problems of . It is the way in which the curriculum at every point - from who gets admitted, who thrives, who survives, who fails - mirrors back the historical and current unequal distribution of educational resources in the broader society. Sarah's involvement in DtMC started when she got in touch with UCLMS faculty about integrating anthropology into the curriculum, which led to a journey of critically examining the medical curriculum and eventually finding herself part of the decolonising movement. Frame the broadening of the curriculum as a 'decolonising of the curriculum', however, and at once the issue becomes polarised. Luckett, K., 2016. The Decolonising the Curriculum movement in higher education has been steadily gaining momentum, accelerated by recent global events calling for an appraisal of the intersecting barriers of . In medical education, most placement providers are outside of the university environment, and thus, a different set of institutional values and practices are observed. Morreira S, Baijnath M. 2019. The Decolonise Project seeks to develop the university for a medical curriculum that reflects the diversity of the student body and promotes. African Sun . In January 2021, our School began taking steps to increase staff and student awareness . In this MicroCPD, Dr Gerasimos Tsourapas shares his experiences working on the "Decolonising the Curriculum" agenda as the ED&I Lead of the School of Government. Authors . 5 Ravin TB. Image Credit: Design by Joe Arton. At the School of Government, we approached this agenda as an iterative process, relying on multiple consultations with students and staff. Data were analysed thematically using elements . Decolonising and diversifying the medical curriculum would: • Address inequalities and hold people accountable. BMJ Glob Health. One of the UK's top medical schools, Bristol announced it will be taking a range of actions including educating students on medicine's 'racist' history, according to a report by the BBC. global health in 2021: a roadmap to move from rhetoric to reform. Aim: Our event aims to shed light on the racism, prejudice and biases that often exist within Medical Sciences and provide our students and staff (especially those within FMS, Newcastle University) with the opportunity to further their education on such issues and explore the ways in which they can decolonise their knowledge . While each of these reflect a critical area of power imbalance within medical education, the utility of this framework extends beyond this, and it may be applied to . The case for decolonising the medical curriculum stems from a social justice perspective on the persistent legacy of colonialism which results in power imbalances and healthcare inequity. . Genuine decolonisation of health would entail allocating resources to improve the health of people who are still impacted by the yoke of colonialism. Decolonising and diversifying the medical curriculum would: • Address inequalities and hold people accountable. Decolonising the curriculum is not limited to syllabus content but extends to redressing inequality in student recruitment and access, inclusion, continuation, attainment, progression to postgraduate study/employment, the career pipeline and staff diversity. I'd argue that we need to look closer at the social determinants of learning in postgraduate medical education. Rather, decolonising education ought to facilitate an expansion of our worldviews, a shifting of our positions in relation to knowledge. Teaching in Higher Education, 24(6), 789 . While the arts and humanities have been at the forefront of these efforts, medical education has been a 'late starter' to the initiative. This is a collaborative project between staff and students from UCL Medical School Clinical and Professional Practice (CPP), UCL Culture and visiting contributors. Last year five 2 nd year trainees were tasked with considering how the programme could decolonise our curriculum as part of their Service Improvement Poster Presentation (SIPP) assignment. . Introduction. Virtual Panel Discussion & Q&A . The Southampton medical curriculum includes both models in its diversity teaching, but little was known about which model was dominant or about the students . Last, entities of power with genuine interest in decolonising global health should support and enable voices from communities—eg, patients, health-care workers, and local researchers. With any myth about decolonisi. Decolonising medical curricula through diversity education: lessons from students Med Teach. 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