{"id":307,"date":"2020-04-01T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T14:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/?p=307"},"modified":"2020-04-01T13:04:20","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:04:20","slug":"indigenization-of-pharmacy-curriculum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/indigenization-of-pharmacy-curriculum\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenization of pharmacy curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/07\/Swidrovich-1024x837.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" width=\"293\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/07\/Swidrovich-1024x837.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/07\/Swidrovich-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/07\/Swidrovich-768x628.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/07\/Swidrovich-600x490.jpg 600w, https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/17\/2017\/07\/Swidrovich-900x736.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jaris Swidrovich visited the College of Pharmacy in January 2020 to share perspectives and insights from an Indigenous perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swidrovich is of Saulteaux and Ukrainian descent, the son of a \u201860s Scoop survivor and a grandson and great grandson of residential school survivors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan, where he is also in his third year of a PhD focusing on decolonizing and Indigenizing pharmacy education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Activities included an Indigenous working group, discussions with our curriculum committee, meetings with faculty members, consultations with our experiential education office and many other discussions capitalizing on his subject matter knowledge. Swidrovich also gave a lecture titled, \u201cIndigenization of Pharmacy Education and Practice.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Swidrovich said that pharmacists, as the most accessible health professionals, are well-positioned to rise up and respond to health inequities. While there have been increased efforts to integrate Indigenous knowledge into health care practice and policy, students in pharmacy are still indirectly, and sometimes directly, taught to devalue non-western medical approaches and medicines. Systematic racism delegitimizes Indigenous research and evidence, which impacts resource allocation and culturally appropriate care. \u201cI see health and wellness as a table and every knowledge system has a chair around that table. They can all work together,\u201d said Swidrovich. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He hopes that Indigenous knowledge and health care approaches will be further integrated into the pharmacy curriculum, and believes that legitimizing Indigenous health knowledge is a step toward reconciliation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Jaris Swidrovich visited the College of Pharmacy in January 2020 to share perspectives and insights from an Indigenous perspective. Swidrovich is of Saulteaux and Ukrainian descent, the son of a \u201860s Scoop survivor and a grandson and great grandson of residential school survivors. He is an assistant professor in the College of Pharmacy and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.radyfhs.umanitoba.ca\/pharmacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}