For the past week I've had to attend Maori Health Week which the university has made compulsory for all 2nd year med,nursing and pharmacy students. We spent the first day at the city campus where the week started off with a 'virtual' powhiri in the Fisher and Paykel Auditorium (the original marae where it was supposed to be held became unavailable at the last minute!) before having another sort of powhiri down at the other marae at the city campus before having some very European morning tea (cupcakes and scones!).
We then had three guest speakers talk to us about Maori health. It was funny as there were a few people sleeping or reading novels! I did my best to stay awake! Whether I did is another thing...
After lunch we got into our assigned groups which were made up of med, nursing and pharmacy students. We had to discuss the case that we were given and come up with an intervention. We would spend the next few days planning this intervention with the ultimate goal of presenting it to the other groups in our 'pod' a group of groups focusing on the same case. The winning group of each 'pod' would then go on to present their presentation to everyone in the 'grand final'. Our pod's case was that we were a nurse at a public health clinic trying to improve low rates of Maori women being screened for cervical cancer.
Our group was quite good. We worked pretty well together and I don't think we argued at all during the week, unlike some other teams which I heard had major disagreements and arguments! There were about five pharmacy students, five medicine students and three nursing students in our group. Our facilitator was a third year medicine student as well but he was pretty cool and laid back, but very helpful!
Each morning we had Te Reo Maori lessons where we were supposed to learn some Maori...supposed to...I don't think our teachers had anything planned so by the end of the week we had only learned three lines, and two Maori songs. One of them was a really cool, funny song that apparently has every letter in the Maori alphabet! I'll upload it to YouTube sometime!
The following days we had to travel all the way to the Tamaki campus for Maori Health Week. This brought back many memories from last year, when I had to go to Tamaki for population health papers as part of the Health Science degree. I sorta started to miss it all and just wanted to go say hi to the tutors and lecturers from last year even though they didn't know me! To get to Tamaki though, I had to catch a bus into the city and then catch another bus to Glen Innes. The bus from the city to Tamaki took 45 minutes though! I ended up taking the train back into the city after each day since it only took 15 minutes.
Our group came up with an intervention that we would hold a day where meetings would be held at a local marae to talk to Maori women and encourage them to get screened. We thought our intervention was pretty good! We were all prepared and made our presentation at the pod presentation. We were up against another tough group led by none other than this pharmacy lecturer Simon who was extremely determined to win! The only thing was that all presentations were peer-assessed, so each group had to mark other groups. At the end of all presentations our group collated our marks but they were in the 50's and 60's which we thought were a bit too low so we added 10 marks to each group. When all the marks from each of the groups were added together though, Simon's group beat our group by ONE point!!!! They went on to represent our pod in the grand final.
Unfortunately (or fortunately???) they didn't win the grand final. This group that did immunisation (I think) ended up winning the grand final, with each group member receiving a $50 book voucher. Their presentation was certainly entertaining. They did a roleplay where the main guy 'Tane' was played by this Asian guy who wore this flax skirt!
The week certainly helped me learn a lot, but rather than learn a lot about Maori health, I learnt so much more about the other disciplines and what was involved in nursing and medicine! It was cool getting to work with students from other faculties and it made me realise that med students aren't exactly snobs and know-it-alls as they're often made out to be! They did most of the work and the leading though but I'm not complaining! I caught a train back into the city with a nursing student in my group and I definitely learnt a lot about nursing from her too!
Here's the Maori I learnt from Maori Health Week: Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Ko Calum toku ingoa. (Welcome, welcome, welcome everyone. My name is Calum)
We then had three guest speakers talk to us about Maori health. It was funny as there were a few people sleeping or reading novels! I did my best to stay awake! Whether I did is another thing...
After lunch we got into our assigned groups which were made up of med, nursing and pharmacy students. We had to discuss the case that we were given and come up with an intervention. We would spend the next few days planning this intervention with the ultimate goal of presenting it to the other groups in our 'pod' a group of groups focusing on the same case. The winning group of each 'pod' would then go on to present their presentation to everyone in the 'grand final'. Our pod's case was that we were a nurse at a public health clinic trying to improve low rates of Maori women being screened for cervical cancer.
Our group was quite good. We worked pretty well together and I don't think we argued at all during the week, unlike some other teams which I heard had major disagreements and arguments! There were about five pharmacy students, five medicine students and three nursing students in our group. Our facilitator was a third year medicine student as well but he was pretty cool and laid back, but very helpful!
Each morning we had Te Reo Maori lessons where we were supposed to learn some Maori...supposed to...I don't think our teachers had anything planned so by the end of the week we had only learned three lines, and two Maori songs. One of them was a really cool, funny song that apparently has every letter in the Maori alphabet! I'll upload it to YouTube sometime!
The following days we had to travel all the way to the Tamaki campus for Maori Health Week. This brought back many memories from last year, when I had to go to Tamaki for population health papers as part of the Health Science degree. I sorta started to miss it all and just wanted to go say hi to the tutors and lecturers from last year even though they didn't know me! To get to Tamaki though, I had to catch a bus into the city and then catch another bus to Glen Innes. The bus from the city to Tamaki took 45 minutes though! I ended up taking the train back into the city after each day since it only took 15 minutes.
Our group came up with an intervention that we would hold a day where meetings would be held at a local marae to talk to Maori women and encourage them to get screened. We thought our intervention was pretty good! We were all prepared and made our presentation at the pod presentation. We were up against another tough group led by none other than this pharmacy lecturer Simon who was extremely determined to win! The only thing was that all presentations were peer-assessed, so each group had to mark other groups. At the end of all presentations our group collated our marks but they were in the 50's and 60's which we thought were a bit too low so we added 10 marks to each group. When all the marks from each of the groups were added together though, Simon's group beat our group by ONE point!!!! They went on to represent our pod in the grand final.
Unfortunately (or fortunately???) they didn't win the grand final. This group that did immunisation (I think) ended up winning the grand final, with each group member receiving a $50 book voucher. Their presentation was certainly entertaining. They did a roleplay where the main guy 'Tane' was played by this Asian guy who wore this flax skirt!
The week certainly helped me learn a lot, but rather than learn a lot about Maori health, I learnt so much more about the other disciplines and what was involved in nursing and medicine! It was cool getting to work with students from other faculties and it made me realise that med students aren't exactly snobs and know-it-alls as they're often made out to be! They did most of the work and the leading though but I'm not complaining! I caught a train back into the city with a nursing student in my group and I definitely learnt a lot about nursing from her too!
Here's the Maori I learnt from Maori Health Week: Tena koutou, tena koutou, tena koutou katoa. Ko Calum toku ingoa. (Welcome, welcome, welcome everyone. My name is Calum)
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