8 episodes

2021 VOYAGER AWARDS WINNER - BEST SERIAL PODCAST.
What’s it like to work in a system that doesn’t do right by your own people? Trainee doctor Emma Espiner is about to find out. Made possible by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund.

Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student RNZ Te Ao Maori

    • Health & Fitness
    • 5.0 • 2 Ratings

2021 VOYAGER AWARDS WINNER - BEST SERIAL PODCAST.
What’s it like to work in a system that doesn’t do right by your own people? Trainee doctor Emma Espiner is about to find out. Made possible by the RNZ/NZ On Air Innovation Fund.

    Episode 7: Pandemic - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Episode 7: Pandemic - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Emma spends lockdown at Auckland hospital, and sees how government action on COVID-19 underlines the lack of urgency when it comes to Māori health.

    • 24 min
    Episode 6: Te Ahi Kaa - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Episode 6: Te Ahi Kaa - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Emma travels home to Tukorehe for her tā moko, and gets some advice from Dr Glenn Colquhoun.

    • 26 min
    Episode 5: What does a Surgeon Look Like? - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Episode 5: What does a Surgeon Look Like? - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Why do so few indigenous doctors end up becoming surgeons? And why does it matter?

    • 25 min
    Episode 4: Tairāwhiti - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Episode 4: Tairāwhiti - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Emma's in Tairāwhiti, where "by Māori for Māori" has the potential to be more than just a slogan in healthcare.

    • 26 min
    Episode 3: Southside - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Episode 3: Southside - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Dr Vaaiga Autagavaia takes Emma to meet the Rugby League team he coaches in Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate, a training programme that goes far beyond sport and into the development of life skills.

    • 26 min
    Episode 2: Tuparehuia - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    Episode 2: Tuparehuia - Getting Better - A Year in the Life of a Māori Medical Student

    For her GP placement, Emma asked to go to Northland. She's on the road with rural doctor Kyle Eggleton, whose weekly clinic is in the remote outpost of Tuparehuia.

    • 23 min

Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5
2 Ratings

2 Ratings

TheRawZombie ,

Didn’t know what to expect

I found this podcast as part of my assignment for my graduate studies in Health Care Administration, Global and Population Health class. I was to pick a country and talk about a health problem that country currently is dealing with. I found this podcast to learn more about the inequities in health the Māori are experiencing. I wasn’t expecting to get hooked and care so much about the Māori people. I even looked up some words to learn in Māori like how to say “hello”. It’s a wonderful podcast, and I recommend subscribing to it like I did. You will learn so much.

MH-L ,

Beautifully produced & illuminating

Fascinating, candid vignettes presented from a unique perspective – one of my favourite programmes of 2020

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