September 10, 2025Medical EducationOpen Access

Facing hard truths: Medical education's reckoning with settler colonialism in an era of reconciliation

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Non-Indigenous medical learners struggle to advocate for systemic change in educational disparities affecting Indigenous peoples.
Participants highlighted their privileged positions while acknowledging the difficulties in confronting their institution's colonial logic.
Data were gathered through narrative interviews with five medical students, a health research graduate student, and ten faculty members.
Many participants aimed to promote reconciliation yet often reverted to maintaining the status quo due to comfort with privilege.

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Narrative inquiry reveals non-Indigenous medical learners' challenges in promoting reconciliation and addressing disparities.

Esomchukwu et al. (2025) studied this question.

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