Conference Report: The Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) 2018

摘要

This was “The best PRIDoC ever,” exclaimed one of the attendees at the ninth biannual Pacific Region Indigenous Doctors Congress (PRIDoC) held in Hilo, Hawai‘i on July 12-17, 2018. PRIDoC is a biannual conference that brings together indigenous physicians and medical students from around the Pacific and from those lands and territories connected to the Pacific in some way. What made this PRIDoC so special? PRIDoC offers a culturally safe space where indigenous doctors and medical students can come together to build relationships and share resources and expertise. The week-long event included extraordinary cultural grounding on the island of Hawai‘i. Hawai?i island is the largest in the Hawaiian Island chain and is home to Kilauea, an active volcano that had erupted continuously since 1983 (flows stopped in the fall of 2019), and the home of Pele, Native Hawaiian goddess of volcanoes.