Evaluating the Effectiveness of Indigenous Health Curricula: Validation and Application of the NOSM CAST Instrument.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

In recent years, Indigenous health curricula have been integrated into medical education in response to international calls to improve Indigenous health care. Instruments to evaluate Indigenous health education are urgently needed. We set out to validate a tool to measure self-reported medical student preparedness to provide culturally safe care to Indigenous Peoples. We then applied the tool to evaluate the effectiveness of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University's (NOSM U) Indigenous health curriculum.

Methods

We conducted psychometric testing of a 46-item draft NOSM Cultural Competency and Safety Tool (CAST). Testing included principal components analysis, subscale and item analysis, and the use of paired sample t-tests to examine pre- and pos

SUBMITTER: Maar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11468636 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature