Implementing an indigenous model of practice.

Maori and non-Maori health professional educators collaborate to ensure a culturally safe learning environment for Maori educators and Maori students. Each team member actively contributes to the Maori health curriculum, demonstrates clinical role-modelling and ensures a culturally safe learning environment for Maori and non-Maori staff and learners. The role of health professional education to deliver indigenous health and well-being is well documented.1,2 Indigenous health curricula have a key role within health professional education to support Maori health advancement; however, indigenous health professional education is a fragile ecology in terms of curriculum time, resource and institutional priorities.2 Colonisation and racism have caused prolonged health injustices for Maori, the Indigenous Peoples of Aotearoa/New Zealand manifested by reduced life expectancy and lower quality health care. [Extracted from the article]