MAP5200 · Improving Indigenous equity in professional practice

Overview

The aim of this unit is to develop and strengthen your practical skills to improve health equity for Indigenous peoples. Within this unit you will increase your knowledge about the five graduate capabilities of the Australian Government’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Curriculum Framework. This includes the capabilities of respect, reflection, advocacy, communication and safety and quality. This unit provides you with the opportunity to learn about one of the oldest continuing cultures in the world and create practical strategies to improve equity in healthcare. You will engage in online learning that features a diverse range of First Peoples via videos and podcast stories. You will also engage in reflection journaling and have opportunities to participate in online tutorials. Using design thinking techniques, you will additionally create a response to an Indigenous health equity challenge.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment in this unit includes hurdle assessment tasks. Failure of any hurdle assessment task may result in failure of the unit.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Examine and reflect on how one’s own culture and dominant cultural paradigms, influence perceptions of and interactions with Indigenous peoples.
2. Recognise Indigenous ways of knowing being and doing in relation to history, culture and diversity.
3. Reflect on culturally appropriate communication and relationship building with Indigenous peoples.
4. Create wise practice approaches to Indigenous equity.
5. Create advocacy strategies for equitable outcomes and social justice for Indigenous peoples.

Workload

Off-campus: a minimum of 10 hours of personal study per week.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.