Curriculum standards

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• demonstrate effective communication, including written and oral, across diverse population groups and settings, and understand the barriers that may limit this
• seek feedback on performance from community sources, cultural navigators, and experts
• use interpreters, translators, and cultural navigators when required

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• provide written and oral communications that are appropriate to the audience to diverse cultural and population groups
• seek advice and training on culturally safe communication
• provide a suitable opening to team meetings and presentations that acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land
• use and demonstrate the principles of cultural awareness, respect, and safety in interactions with people from different cultural and population groups
• identify appropriate channels, including cultural or community leaders, through which to communicate, consult, and collaborate with communities

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• challenge the cultural bias of individual colleagues and systemic bias within healthcare services and other organisations
• ensure quality and safety activities that impact cultural groups, such as audits, are culturally safe and conducted according to best practice cultural governance frameworks
• evaluate access to health services using a cultural lens

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• demonstrate an understanding of cultural awareness and safety, and apply this understanding consistently
• demonstrate an understanding of institutional discrimination and its impact on health and wellbeing

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• seek opportunities to build capacity across diverse cultural and/or non-dominant population groups to contribute to public health
• improve health and public health literacy within organisations, including among clinicians and organisation managers
• partner and codesign effectively with members of cultural and population groups different to one’s own
• use diverse teaching methods, recognising different ways of learning across diverse population groups

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• teach and supervise using standard methods, with some recognition of cultural influences
• participate in continuing professional development to maintain and improve one’s cultural competence
• actively seek feedback on personal skills until competent

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• use culturally appropriate consumer and community participation strategies
• select culturally suitable research methods and strategies
• apply rigorous ethical processes and methodologies that are acceptable to the population under study
• collect ethnicity and cultural identity data according to best practice policies
• present results in a way that is comprehensible and meaningful to the audience, including different cultural groups, clinical colleagues, and organisational management
• develop conclusions using data from both scientific and cultural sources
• demonstrate recognition of data sovereignty, data governance, and return of data collected to the community

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• use methods that may have been developed in partnership with the community of study
• focus on the return of findings to the community of study, rather than the publication of findings
• frame a suitable research question
• present the findings of research at scientific meetings or in publications with consultation and/or inclusion of members of the community of study

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• identify key concepts and stages in developing cultural consciousness
• recognise how policy and practices of dominant cultures influence the health of other groups
• identify the values and needs of non-dominant population groups in partnership with those groups

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• undertake continuing professional development to maintain and improve one’s cultural competence
• use appropriate individuals, organisations, and representative networks to seek information and advice when working with other cultural and population groups
• demonstrate an understanding of culture as a determinant of health
• describe the cultural composition of workforces in health settings
• reflect on their own cultural identity and critically assess development needs
• appreciate the interactions and interconnectedness between aspects of a group’s identity, such as race or gender, and attitudes, systems, structures, and organisations which can magnify inequity
• recognise the impact of colonisation on epistemic justice, decolonising actions, and Indigenist approaches to partnerships, knowledge generation, knowledge translation, and capacity building

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• demonstrate an understanding of the impact of their own culture on their practice
• advise colleagues on non-discriminatory work practices, and advocate for change when discriminatory work practices are displayed
• model interpersonal interactions with colleagues and stakeholders that demonstrate courtesy, fairness, and respect
• recognise and implement ethical principles for working with community and cultural groups
• promote and support self-determination of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Māori (tangata whenua)
• prioritise population impact and value, and sustainability and accountability

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• recognise and implement general ethical principles
• work respectfully with colleagues
• demonstrate professional values, including compassion, empathy, respect for diversity, integrity, honesty, and partnership across diverse groups within the landscape of practice

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• discuss options and make decisions in genuine partnership with communities and diverse population groups
• identify uncertainty and estimate the possible effects on different facets of health and equity for different population groups
• maintain personal and professional integrity in the face of political, professional, or organisational pressures that disadvantage a particular population

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• recognise personal limitations and seek help in an appropriate way when required

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• switch leadership styles (delegating, participating, selling, or telling) according to the situation
• manage culturally diverse teams effectively, including co-leadership
• manage stakeholder committees with diverse cultures, interests, and agendas
• collaboratively design, implement, and evaluate interventions with stakeholders from diverse and non-dominant population groups

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• be an effective member of culturally diverse teams
• respect all members of culturally diverse teams
• work collaboratively with researchers, policy makers, and experts from other cultural and population groups
• maintain a focus on health equity

Ready to perform without supervision

Expected behaviours of a trainee who can routinely perform this activity without needing supervision

The trainee will:

• collaborate meaningfully with community-controlled health services
• use processes and protocols that are culturally respectful and safe and uphold self-determination in providing services to non-dominant populations
• advocate for choice in health services for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and Māori (tangata whenua)
• identify and act on cultural and other bias within healthcare services and other organisations
• evaluate access to health services using a cultural lens
• recognise the differential impacts of health policy and health systems on equity across diverse cultural and population groups

Requires some supervision

Possible behaviours of a trainee who needs some supervision to perform this activity

The trainee may:

• recognise the benefits and harms Westernised health services have played in the health of people of non-Western cultures
• recognise cultural and other bias within healthcare services and other organisations, and seek guidance on an appropriate course of action when required