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Integration of The Keep Tobacco Sacred Collaboration in the University of Alberta Undergraduate Program in Radiation Therapy
Kari Osmar, Clinical Faculty, University of Alberta Radiation Therapy Degree Program
Tracey Lundstrom, Radiation Therapist, Alberta Health Services

The Keep Tobacco Sacred Collaboration was created to improve connection between Elders and Knowledge Keepers and Indigenous youth as a pathway for facilitation of cultural restoration, understanding and healing. We will provide an overview of The Keep Tobacco Sacred Collaboration and how it intersects with the education of students in the Radiation Therapy program with the University of Alberta. Our journey with The Keep Tobacco Sacred Collaboration will be shared, including the planting, growing and harvesting of tobacco and how it will play a role in ceremony within the Radiation Therapy Undergraduate program. The team will also provide an interactive teaching about tobacco ties, how to use them to contribute to truth and reconciliation in our home communities and how to connect our tie to create and deepen our land acknowledgement.

Objectives:

• Describe The Keep Tobacco Sacred Collaboration and the role of Tobacco Warriors and share our teachings including the planting, growing, and harvesting of sacred tobacco.
• Describe how we will use the sacred tobacco in ceremony within the University of Alberta Undergraduate program. Describe how learning about The Keep Tobacco Sacred Collaboration and growing our own tobacco deepened our understanding of our relationship to the land we live on.
• Describe what a tobacco tie is including an opportunity to create a tobacco tie to take home to honor the land we live on, create and deepen our understanding of a land acknowledgement and how this is an act of reconciliation that heals our communities.

This session aligns with the CAMRT Strategic Plan Pillar ‘Social accountability’

We're All In This Together
Ryan Yeo, MRT(T), Alberta Health Services

This presentation aims to highlight how medical diagnostic imaging is crucial in Radiotherapy. We aim to demonstrate how various imaging modalities are employed in the development of radiotherapy treatment plans and how diagnostic imaging is essential to patient care.

Objectives:

• To highlight how diagnostic images are used in radiotherapy
• To demonstrate how contributions from MRT professions augments patient care

This session aligns with the CAMRT Strategic Plan Pillar ‘A Strong & Resilient Profession’

Approved for 1 Category A Credit