Onemda staff have input into both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. We have responsibility for ensuring a coherent stream of Aboriginal Health content in the Master of Health Social Science course and contribute to other postgraduate subjects within the School of Population Health where analytical frameworks and content from Aboriginal health strengthen the professional training program. We also contribute towards teaching in courses in medicine, nursing, dentistry, physiotherapy, social work and psychology. Onemda also contributes to Indigenous ‘breadth' subjects across all faculties within the University of Melbourne.

Masters of Health Social Science
Aboriginal Health is integrated through the Master of Health Social Science, and provides health professionals and policy-makers with a solid grounding for practice in Community and institutional Indigenous public health contexts. In 2003 the national Indigenous public health curriculum audit included a national forum that resulted in the identification of core Indigenous health content deemed foundational to the practice of public health professionals. This guided the development of our specialist Aboriginal health subjects:

Aboriginal Health: Past to Present
Using case studies located along a historical timeline, this subject provides students with a foundational understanding of Aboriginal health from pre-invasion to the present. Students will gain an insight into the development of Aboriginal leadership and community control of health services through participating in an online multimedia role-play, based on the events at Coranderrk in Victoria.

Policy Processes in Aboriginal Health
This subject reviews the historical, social, economic and cultural factors influencing structures and practices central to the policy process in Aboriginal health. The content is brought into focus through specific analysis of particular Aboriginal health policies and consideration of the practice implications for socially aware, self-reflexive health professionals.

Australian Health Systems
This subject will provide students with the knowledge and analytical frameworks about the social dynamics of those institutions and structures that constitute Australian health systems. The subject will enhance students' ability to undertake critical policy analysis.

Generic Population Health Subjects
Onemda staff also coordinate generic subjects within the School of Population Health Postgraduate Program, as well as integrating content into other subjects, such as Research Methods in Social Health:

Community Theory and Practice
This subject will provide students with differing perspectives on community development, including Indigenous Community Development, International Community Development, Historical approaches to Community Development, and current Government strategies to include community development in policy.

Aboriginal Health Subjects in the Professional Health Sciences Programs
Onemda teach into Medicine, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Social Work, Psychiatry and Oral Health courses. Our approach varies, but in Medicine we have developed a fully integrated program covering the 6 years of the undergraduate medical course, and in Nursing we have a discrete, standalone subject. We have worked to embed Aboriginal Health perspectives in core psychiatry training, as well as the opportunity of an elective.

Medicine
Onemda work closely with the School of Medicine, and have developed an integrated approach delivering Aboriginal health for medical students. This includes lectures, PBL (Problem Based Learning) simulated patient experiences and symposia. We are working towards have an Indigenous health pathway in the new generation medical program.

Aboriginal Social and Emotional Wellbeing
This is an elective subject delivered into the joint Melbourne/Monash Master of Psychiatry course. Psychiatry registrars can choose to undertake this short course, which has a focus on the broad social determinants of Aboriginal health, and the impact of this on mental health.

University Breadth subjects
The University of Melbourne's Melbourne Model provides an opportunity for undergraduate students to take subjects called 'breadth' subjects; which are outside of their major discipline, and encourages students to learn from a different perspective. Australian Indigenous studies is a breadth subject which Onemda teach within.

Student Information
Students should go to the Centre for Health and Society homepage and/or contact their Faculty Liaison Officer for advice about University of Melbourne courses. Indigenous students should also contact the Centre for Indigenous Education at the University of Melbourne.