Equity, Diversity & Cultural Safety Learning for Teaching

Faculty of Medicine: REDI

The Anti-Racism in Health Professions Education modules promote self-reflection, awareness, and action toward anti-racism in health education. Originally created for PGME faculty and residents, they are relevant across the Faculty of Medicine. These interactive, self-paced modules, 4 in total, take about 2.5 hours to complete, and eligible participants may earn up to 2.5 CPD credits. 

Office of Faculty Development

This page introduces key resources for teachers in the Medical Undergraduate and Postgraduate Programs 4 modules 15-30 mins each. 

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

An introductory Canvas Catalogue course in five modules. This course was created for instructors in all disciplines who are interested in developing their capacity to create more inclusive classrooms and learning environments. 

Canvas course, requires CWL.

Applied Sciences

Grounding Anti-Oppression is a self-paced Canvas Catalogue course from the Faculties of Applied Science and Land and Food Systems. It examines power and oppression at individual, interpersonal, and institutional levels, offering foundational principles, strategies, and opportunities for critical self-reflection. 

Canvas course, requires CWL.

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Office of Faculty Development

This module introduces inclusive practices in the Faculty of Medicine and provides guidance. 
~20-30 minutes 

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Indigenous Learning Pathways (ILP) is a self-paced training series that helps new UBC employees engage respectfully and meaningfully with Indigenous histories, knowledges, and perspectives. Through guided activities, reflections, and learning prompts, ILP introduces key Indigenous-focused resources at UBC and offers practical ideas for integrating them into personal and professional growth.

Program of 4 courses:

• Beginning Your Learning Journey
• Engaging with Indigenous Knowledges and Perspectives
• Truth Before Reconciliation
• Land Acknowledgements at UBC

WPL course, requires CWL.

NORTHERN HEALTH AUTHORITY

This course includes four sequential learning modules and takes approximately 20 hours to complete. Each module contains four to six lessons that build upon the knowledge and skills introduced earlier.

The course is on the PHSA Learning Hub and available to all BC Health Authorities.

Modules

• Getting to Change: Addressing Cultural Safety and Anti-Indigenous Racism
• Introducing Cultural Safety
• Setting the Context: History and Contemporary Realities
• Critically Reflecting on Self and Systems

Equity and Inclusion Office

The Positive Space: Foundations online course offers accessible learning for students, staff, and faculty on sex, sexuality, and gender diversity. Updated to reflect current UBC context, it includes short modules with reflection activities, quizzes, and resources for deeper learning. 

WPL course, requires CWL.

Applied Sciences

Weaving Relations is a self-paced course from the Faculties of Applied Science and Land and Food Systems. It explores Indigenous histories, settler colonialism in Canada, and Indigenous–Canadian relationships—looking at how we arrived here and how to build a better future. The course includes seven modules. 

Canvas course, requires CWL.

Interior Health Authority

Interior Health provides the Journey to Indigenous Cultural Safety and Humility (JACSH) education program, endorsed by the IH Senior Executive Team. JACSH offers foundational training on culturally safe approaches, emphasizing the roots of health inequities, colonization, and day-to-day culturally safe practice. 

Some components require access to the IH network (InsideNet). 

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Anti-Racist Teaching and Learning (A-RTL) helps staff and faculty strengthen anti-racist teaching and facilitation to support equitable, caring learning environments. This category features ongoing A-RTL events and learning opportunities at individual, community, and institutional levels. 

To learn more, you can visit the A-RTL Website.   

Requires an academic institution email.

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

These workshops are intended for anyone within UBC’s teaching and learning community (faculty, staff, postdocs, graduate students) with an interest in inclusive teaching practices. We welcome participants from a broad spectrum of existing knowledge, experience and backgrounds.

Requires an academic institution email.

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

Indigenous Initiatives at CTLT offers programs, resources, and consultation to support respectful Indigenous engagement in teaching and learning. They assist faculty, staff, and students in cultivating inclusive classroom environments and meaningful dialogue. Events and programming are open to all.

Requires an academic institution email.

BCCNM

Developed in partnership with CPSBC, this video series supports health-care providers in understanding and applying BCCNM’s Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, and Anti-Racism practice standard. Through stories and guidance shared by Indigenous leaders and health professionals, the videos highlight why this standard matters, how it can be integrated into midwifery practice, and the role it plays in fostering respectful, culturally safe care for Indigenous clients, families, and communities.

VIDEO SERIES:

Northern Health BC

This 5 minute animated video introduces cultural safety and related concepts in an easily understandable way. It invites health care providers to participate in making the health system more culturally safe for Indigenous people and families. The video was produced by the Indigenous Health (formerly Aboriginal Health) team of Northern Health.

Equity and Inclusion Office

The Equity and Inclusion Glossary offers commonly used UBC terms related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Language in this area is dynamic and context-dependent; terms are not prescriptive and may shift as perspectives and lived experiences evolve.

Office of Faculty Development

On May 23, 2024, the Office of Faculty Development hosted an R&R Series session on trauma-informed education, highlighting strategies to support inclusive learning environments and respond when curricular content activates strong emotions. 

• Summary Document  
• Recording 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

A webinar series offering practice-focused education, resources, and tools on Indigenous-specific anti-racism and cultural safety. Developed by UBC CPD in partnership with the Indigenous Specific Anti-Racism (ISAR) and Cultural Safety Team at Doctors of BC. 

Office of Faculty Development

On January 28, as part of the Research and Reflections on Teaching (R&R) Series, an evening panel explored neurodiversity in teaching and learning. Speakers included health professionals with lived experience and those supporting academic accommodations. 

• Summary Document: Neurodiversity: Insights for Teaching in Health Professions Education  
• Recording: Neurodiversity: Insights for Teaching in Health Professions Education 

Office of Faculty Development

This guide supports faculty in distinguishing between crisis and urgent concern and directing students to appropriate resources. In crisis situations, faculty assist by connecting students to immediate support rather than resolving the issue themselves. 

Office of Faculty Development

This inclusive language guide is developed by the Office of Faculty Development & Educational Support, and the Office of Respectful Environments, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, and is designed to support those teaching in lecture, small group, and clinical settings. 

UBC Brand & Marketing, First Nations House of Learning

A concise guide to navigating respectful, accurate, and culturally appropriate terminology when referring to Indigenous peoples. Developed by UBC Brand & Marketing and the First Nations House of Learning, it supports clear, informed, and relationship-centred communication.

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology

This guide explores microaggressions in the classroom—brief, often unintentional actions or remarks that undermine marginalized students. It defines the different types of microaggressions, explains their impact on teaching and learning, and outlines the A.C.T.I.O.N. framework for responding to and preventing them. 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

UBC Rural CPD’s Coaching and Mentoring Program (CAMP) fosters peer connections in rural practitioner networks to improve your practice, increase your confidence, and connect you to rural colleagues. 

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

The Clinical Faculty Mentoring program, delivered in partnership by UBC CPD and UBC Faculty of Medicine (FoM) Faculty Affairs, pairs junior clinical faculty/new educators (mentees) with senior clinical faculty (mentors).