This cyber-traveller is starting in\u00a0 her own backyard.<\/p>\n
Site #1. The Cowichan Tribes are a strong presence in the Cowichan Valley but through sheer laziness, I do not know much about their culture.\u00a0 The opportunity is there but until now, I never investigated. It pays to snoop around. Their website is well laid out with general information about their history, tribe, government, and education, last updated 2010. There seems to be a couple of\u00a0 scholarships for medical education. http:\/\/www.cowichantribes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Site#2. The Province newspaper featured an article by Suzanne Fournier on May 24, 2012. She\u00a0featured\u00a0Dayna Briemon, one of the twelve First Nations physicians graduating from\u00a0the UBC Medical Program this year, the “largest number of First Nation graduates in the history of the UBC faculty, and possible in all of Canada”. It is a light article, serving as introduction to the topic.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/business\/First+Nations+doctors+going+rural\/6670603\/story\/html<\/a>.<\/p>\n Site#3. There is an Indigenous Physicians Association of Canada (http:\/\/www.ipac-amic.org\/<\/a>). On their site, a section on becoming a doctor, very general, very vague.<\/p>\n Site 4. The IPAC did, however,\u00a0host the Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors’ Congress (Pridoc) at Whistler, B.C. in 2010.\u00a0 Their entire proceedings are available online: http:\/\/www.pridoc.org\/2010presentation1.aspx<\/a>. Since one\u00a0day’s presentation concentrated on\u00a0the education of indigenous medical students,\u00a0I felt it was a\u00a0goldmine of information. I will return!<\/p>\n Site 5. There is an Aboriginal Nurses Association of Canada, founded in 1975. Sadly, their 2012 National forum was cancelled due to budget cuts. In 2007, only 8 schools had aboriginal specific access\/bridge way\/transition program to encouragement enrollment in nursing. Nevertheless, the number of Aboriginal nursing students in Canada increased from 237 to 737 within the past five years (posted 2006). http:\/\/www.anac.on.ca\/<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This cyber-traveller is starting in\u00a0 her own backyard. Site #1. The Cowichan Tribes are a strong presence in the Cowichan Valley but through sheer laziness, I do not know much about their culture.\u00a0 The opportunity is there but until now, I never investigated. It pays to snoop around. Their website is well laid out with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14689,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1766,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}