Dr Abu Bakr is a member of the Sufi Muslim community in Broken Hill.(ABC Broken Hill: Grace Atta)
Dr Abu Bakr isn’t a medical doctor, but several times a year, he runs a workshop for Australia’s next generation of health professionals.
In his sessions, he discusses how to provide culturally appropriate health care to Muslim patients, and talks about the role of spirituality in the sector more broadly.
It’s part of a higher education program that’s been operating since 2018, where an outback university has collaborated with its local Muslim community
