Regions: North Slave Region
Tags: social sciences
| Principal Investigator: | D'Hont, Thomsen (1) |
| Licence Number: | 15981 |
| Organization: | Walter & Duncan Gordon Foundation |
| Licensed Year(s): |
2016
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| Issued: | Nov 24, 2016 |
| Project Team: | Thomsen D'Hont |
Objective(s): To identify the barriers and challenges of recruiting and retaining Indigenous NWT students to northern medicine.
Project Description: The objective of this research is to identify the barriers and challenges of recruiting and retaining Indigenous Northwest Territories (NWT) students to northern medicine. A qualitative study of semi-structured phone interviews (of 30 minutes to 1 hour in length, recorded using the Tape A Call recording application on an iPhone) is being conducted with prospective and current medical students from the NWT, current or recently graduated Indigenous medical students, and physicians from the NWT who are practicing there. To expand the base the research team are interviewing senior administrators and deans at Canadian medical schools. Interviewees will be selected based on word of mouth and from suggestions from initial interviewees. A key component of this study will be to identify the physician-provided healthcare needs of Indigenous communities in the NWT. This project will include youth engagement promoting careers in medicine at local high schools. Results will also be used to inform policy creation and strengthening healthcare human resources in NWT. Results will be disseminated through a public policy paper and communicated with the public at an Institute for Circumpolar Health Research lunch time presentation and at annual workshops at local high schools promoting medicine. The fieldwork for this study will be conducted from November 24, 2016 to December 31, 2016.
