CLINED 720 : Special Topic: Foundations of Cultural Safety for Clinical Education

Medical and Health Sciences

2025 Semester One (1253) (15 POINTS)

Course Prescription

Explores the principles and practice of cultural safety in health professions education in Aotearoa. This will include the specific proficiencies required for culturally safe health professionals, and the development of learning techniques and assessment modalities to teach and assess cultural safety.

Course Overview

This course explores the principles and practices of cultural safety in health professions education in Aotearoa. It aims to develop clinical educators’ capability to meet cultural safety proficiencies, including:

• Engaging in ongoing development of critical consciousness
• Examining and redressing power relationships
• Committing to transformative action
• Ensuring that ‘safety’ is determined by patients and communities

This course will equip clinical educators to begin incorporating cultural safety into their teaching, clinical supervision and assessment.

Course Requirements

No pre-requisites or restrictions

Course Contacts

Dr Mataroria Lyndon (mataroria.lyndon@auckland.ac.nz) and Dr Neera Jain (neera.jain@auckland.ac.nz)

Capabilities Developed in this Course

Capability 1: People and Place
Capability 2: Sustainability
Capability 3: Knowledge and Practice
Capability 4: Critical Thinking
Capability 5: Solution Seeking
Capability 6: Communication
Capability 7: Collaboration
Capability 8: Ethics and Professionalism

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:
  1. Define and explain cultural safety and its importance in healthcare and health professions education (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6)
  2. Apply cultural safety to your clinical and teaching practice (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8)
  3. Critically engage in self-reflection and self-assessment of your cultural positioning, biases, and assumptions (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8)
  4. Foster a culturally safe and respectful learning environment and develop strategies to integrate cultural safety at curricular and organisational levels (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8)
  5. Utilise a variety of teaching methods to promote active learning of cultural safety proficiencies. (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8)
  6. Develop strategies for continuous learning and reflection on cultural safety in their teaching practice. (Capability 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8)

Assessments

Assessment Type Percentage Classification
Assignments 30% Individual Coursework
Portfolio 30% Individual Coursework
Assignments 40% Individual Coursework
Assessment Type Learning Outcome Addressed
1 2 3 4 5 6
Assignments
Portfolio
Assignments
  • Assignment 1 (30%): Critical Positionality Statement  (1500 words) 
  • Assignment 2 (30%): Longitudinal Activity Portfolio 30% (1500 words) 
  • Assignment 3 (40%): Enhancing a teaching session with cultural safety principles  (2000 words)

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

Delivery Mode

Online

This course is fully delivered online  

  • Attendance is expected at scheduled online activities.
  • The course will include live online events including group discussions and these will be recorded.
  • Attendance on campus is not required.
  • Where possible, study material will be available at course commencement on Canvas.
  • This course runs to the University semester timetable and all the associated completion dates and deadlines will apply.

Learning Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Your feedback helps course directors to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework, tests and examinations as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against electronic source material using computerised detection mechanisms. Upon reasonable request, students may be required to provide an electronic version of their work for computerised review.

Class Representatives

Class representatives are students tasked with representing student issues to departments, faculties, and the wider university. If you have a complaint about this course, please contact your class rep who will know how to raise it in the right channels. See your departmental noticeboard for contact details for your class reps.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Learning Continuity

In the event of an unexpected disruption we undertake to maintain the continuity and standard of teaching and learning in all your courses throughout the year. If there are unexpected disruptions the University has contingency plans to ensure that access to your course continues and your assessment is fair, and not compromised. Some adjustments may need to be made in emergencies. You will be kept fully informed by your course co-ordinator, and if disruption occurs you should refer to the University Website for information about how to proceed.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html.

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.

Published on 07/11/2024 09:33 a.m.