There is a half-day protected academic time each week to accomplish the following:

• Complete Memorial University's online multidisciplinary course: Certificate in Health Equity, including required readings, online modules, and online group discussions.  There are 12 modules, residents complete 10 in Global/Local Health Equity.
• Collaborate with CUP faculty and community partners in a scholarly research project (e.g., chart review, program evaluation, etc.), which is integrated into the CUP Program's learning objectives and designed to contribute to the required competencies. 
• Residents complete an advocacy projext on a topic of their choice and receive mentorship around this through CUP faculty and often in collaboration with community partners.
• Write three reflective essays over the course of their training that consider how the broad range of learning experiences gained inform each other and influence the resident's development.
• Participate in a Contextualized Health Research Synthesis Program (CHRSP) with the Newfoundland and Labrador Centre for Applied Health Research (NLCAHR). 
• Prepare and present at one Family Medicine Academic Half-day session.  
• Self-study.

CULTURAL SAFETY

All Enhanced Skills residents participate in a mandatory three-hour cultural safety training session offered by First Light, a local non-governmental organization (NGO) that provides social support to local urban Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in St John’s. 

At the start of their residency, CUP residents must also complete the CPSNL Module “Providing Culturally Safe Health Care to Indigenous Patients in Newfoundland and Labrador”. In addition, assigned readings and online material on Indigenous health are provided for the resident during the CUP orientation. The resident is expected to review this material. Prior to leaving for Labrador, CUP residents ideally meet with the Coordinator of Indigenous Health Initiative at the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial, and when available, the St. John’s-based Indigenous Patient Navigators.

While in Labrador, our resident also engages in different cultural safety training experiences depending on their availability, as offered by the different Indigenous groups they are working with at the time of their rotation. 

Finally, residents complete a one-hour module by TransCare BC prior to working in Dr. Mari-Lynne Sinnott’s Gender Affirming Care Clinic.