Conversion through immersion? Te Moemoea Conversion through immersion? Paul Robertson, Suzanne Pitama, Tania Huria

Fish in and out of Water

MAPPING HAUORA MAORI Health Science Year 2nd Year Medicine Evaluation of Thread – Each Year Lecture Health Science Year 2nd Year Medicine 3rd Year Medicine 4th Year Medicine 5th Year Medicine TI Year Session One Session Two Integrated Day Assessment Session Three Session Four Session Five Session Six Integrated Day Assessment Block Course Theme One Theme Two Theme Three Assignment Assessment Content in Attachments Theme Four Theme Five Theme Six Theme Seven Assignment & 5th Year Question Content in Attachments Assignment Theme Eight Theme Nine MAPPING HAUORA MAORI

Why the Marae? Explicitly Māori context for clinically focused teaching Engaging with core Māori processes applicable to clinical practice Incidental learning

“We didn’t get to meet any real Maoris….. and they didn’t give us a hangi” 4th year Student Evaluation comments 2002

Teaching Hauora Māori in a Māori Context Getting real Keeping the community safe Involving the community

Integration of the cultural and the clinical Experiencing the processes Opportunity to apply the material Assessment of progress

Incidental Learning Banging up against a taken for granted reality (busting best practice) Getting around - Marae Survival 101

Incidental Learning Banging up against the taken for granted (busting best practice) Getting around - Marae Survival 101 Truth with love

Key Learning Clearly explain the nature of this new water Get students swimming in different water Hold their hands as you move from the shallows into the deep (i.e. linking the cultural to the clinical)

Keep it real On both sides!

“That was the first time a Doctor got me…the way he asked me questions and listened to me…he got the Māori stuff I was talking about…” Māori Patient who had been interviewed by a 4th year medical Student