Task description:

Part A Create a detailed concept map that explores a subject that has resonated with you in the First Peoples Health and Practice course (3121MED). To assist you, you should ask yourself:

1. What has resonated with me the most in this course?

2. What are the key concepts within this subject that stood out tome? 3. How did these concepts make me feel and/or how did I react when I heard this? 4. Why did I feel or react this way? 5. Continue to ask yourself ‘why’ to unpack each concept in detail, from your personal, professional and the dominant cultural lens.

Part B Using the concept map completed in Part A as a guide, write a 2000 word critical reflective essay, applying the following critical reflection framework:

1. Define and discuss a question that you would like to know more about that has come from your critical thinking in your concept map. 2. Reflect on how your own culture as well as your professional culture, influence your understanding of this question and how this shapes your perceptions of and interactions

with First Peoples.

3. Analyse the perspectives of others including dominant structures to explore the underlying causes and effects relating to your question. 4. Discuss what you have learnt from this critical reflective process and how this learning influences your perceptions of, and interactions with, Australia’s First Peoples in the

health care setting. 5. Discuss how your future practice may be transformed as part of this process.

Tips: • Refer to the ‘Research and Writing tips’ as well as the Griffith Health Writing and Referencing Guide for tips about writing and reading in a critical way. • Please use APA 7th formatting for referencing as well as times new roman font, 12 pt font size, 1.5 line spacing. • Please refer to the mini lecture located in Assessment 3 folder to assist you with getting started and formulating a question from your concept map.

To critically reflect on how your own culture, life experiences, worldview and dominant cultural paradigms, influences your perceptions of, and interactions with, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in health care.