Fulfilling cultural safety expectations in specialist medical education and training: considerations for colleges to advance recognition and quality

With growing attention and priority regardingcultural safety in the Australian, Aotearoa, andindeed global health care environments, an equallysignificant concern is mounting vis-à-vis the capacityof medical professionals to provide care that isdeemed culturally safe by Indigenous peoples.1-3Furthermore, it is increasingly evident that healthinequities within Indigenous populations “areprimarily due to unequal power relationships, unfairdistribution of the social determinants of health,marginalisation, biases, unexamined privilege,and institutional racism,“4 prompting the needfor attention at a variety of levels within healthcare, including at the systemic, organisational andindividual levels.