Yeah it's a pretty shit time. It's only worth 15/100 marks though, 20% of which is for spelling and structure.
The topics are either based on the concepts of healing, "entangled notions of health", illness narratives or comparing biomedical knowledge with medical humanities. We got given broad topics that the questions will be based around, but not really the questions themselves.
We're only expected to spend ~30 minutes writing it which is insane, will be a very time pressured exam. The POPH department this year has been an absolute shit show with the addition of humanities and I hope future students don't have to go through it after all our feedback
It's definitely very important to learn and relates strongly to future careers, but the way they go about assessing their content is straight up dumb. We were taught all about different ways of looking at Maori and Pacific health via health models, only for them to ask stupid questions like "what Maori academic came up with this model in 1981" or "what one of these Maori politicians was not a doctor".