Community and Health - MEDICAL PRACTITIONER 

"Young Doctors" are Closing the Gap! How can you spread the word?

Primary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. In groups of 3 - 5 students, you are to read and listen to the following content keeping in mind that you will be answering the questions: "Malpa: What is it? How does it work?"

You are to use the Jigsaw Strategy to obtain the information that you require. Each student is to take and read ONE resource and write up notes.

Keep in mind the questions as you explain your resource to your group.

Malpa	ABC RN Breakfast 17 March 2017: Audio file
Glue ear and Indigenous health - ABC - Ockham's Razor: Audio file	SMH 27 June 2015

2.  To obtain some order to your knowledge from the above information sources, fill out the Retrieval Chart Strategy by printing out the Word doc.

3. In your group, discuss the following questions:

• What do you think and feel about this program?
• Can students aged 9 - 12 be effective young doctors?
• Are they closing the gap between Indigenous health and non-Indigenous health?
• Should it be in all primary schools across Australia?

4. You are to sell this program to the Government as a way of closing the gap and also showing that young people to have the knowledge and responsibility of being a young doctor.

You are to create social media campaign to show Commonwealth Ministers the effectiveness of this program. You might also like to create a presentation or infographic to go into your social media campaign using the following: 

Prezi

Canva Inforgraphic Creator

AI scribe and your GP: Actitude, Analysis Strategy

Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Cooperative Learning Activity

Teacher

Your students are going to use the  Actitude, Analysis Strategy in this activity. You might read this strategy before the lesson.

Students

1. Form groups of 3 - 5 students.

2. Read the following The Conversation article keeping in mind that you are to use the template below (Actitude, Analysis Strategy) to solve the problem of privacy.

The Conversation 10 September 2025

3. Use the following template to analyse the "Problem of Privacy" as a group. You all should agree to each section of the template.