December 06, 2021
Kaupapa Māori for all in med school push
Posted On December 6, 2021
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The new dean of Otago University School of Medicine’s Christchurch campus intends to instil a greater sense of kaupapa Māori in the institution.
Professor Suzanne Pitama says the Covid pandemic has highlighted issues of health inequity.
The university wants to help fix that.
“Our goal of our medical school is actually to produce, not just increase the Māori health workforce, but actually, every graduate that we send out into the workforce should be competent in hauora Māori,” Professor Pitama says.
She starts her role on February 1.