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a culturally safe and secure environment? How do we teach and support medical students and graduates tobecome culturally sound practitioners? To what degree are we achieving these goals? Where are the qualityassurances? Are we continuing to challenge the system and students educational experiences by continually‘raising the bar’? Where is our culturally safety and support? Most importantly, we’ll also examine thetransferability and utilisation of the Black Space into other Indigenous health education settings and howsuccessfully we have been at creating culturally secure Black Spaces, where tokenism can not be toleratedand we are treated as equal partners with equal power and control, creating the ultimate working utopia.Presenter: A/Professor Craig AllenCraig is a Yandruwandha Yawarawarka man. With a background in Psychology andCriminology Craig has worked extensively throughout the country supporting Aboriginaland Torres Strait Islander individuals, their families and communities. Craig hascontinued to work within the philosophy of 'Cultural Way First' and this philosophy hasinfluenced his direct clinical practice and is reflected in his policy writing, consultationand advice surrounding strategic direction with representation at a local and nationallevels. As an Assistant Professor with the Centre for Aboriginal Medical, Dental Health (CAMDH) at theUniversity of Western Australia, Craig’s been teaching our next generations of health practitioners theimportance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and how to better provide culturally safe andsecure health services.Progress in setting standards for cultural competence in Aotearoa / New ZealandDr David Jansen 1 , Dr Peter Jansen 2 , Dr Kira Bacal 31. General Practitioner, All Health Mt Smart, and Health Consultant Mauri Ora Associates Ltd2. Health Consultant, Mauri Ora Associates Ltd3. Emergency Department Physician, Waitemata District Heath Board and Health Consultant,Mauri Ora Associates LtdAbstractThe passage of the Health Practitioners’ Competence Assurance Act in New Zealand elevated culturalcompetency to the same status of a legislative requirement as clinical competency and ethical conduct.However, there is no single standard of cultural competence for all health professionals in Aotearoa/NZ. TheMedical Council of New Zealand has published a ‘Statement on Cultural Competence’ and a ‘Statement onBest Practices when Providing Care to Māori Patients and their Whanau’. These statements establish thestandard expected of medical practitioners when working with Indigenous people and Aotearoa/NZ’s culturallydiverse population. Other registration authorities including the Nursing Council, Dental Council and PharmacyCouncil are similarly working on establishing standards of cultural competency for their members.The next stage of development within the medical profession is for branch advisory bodies and colleges todevelop processes to assess performance against the standards, and ensure that vocational training producesdoctors who can perform to the standards. We report on our work with the Medical Council and BranchAdvisory Bodies and will share the lessons learned.Presenter: Dr David Jansen42As per session ‘Ensuring culturally safe clinicians: Part 1’.