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This handbook is a training and orientation tool for medical professionals starting a short term job placement with the Remote Area Health Corps (RAHC). The RAHC places doctors, registered nurses, dental and allied health workers into short assignments of three weeks to three months in remote Indigenous communities.

• Your first days
• Working within the Aboriginal community
• Personal presentation and conduct
• Working within the kinship network
• Birth and childhood
• Dying, death and 'sorry' business
• Other cultural considerations relating to treatment
• Treatment compliance
• References
• Useful resources.

Although the handbook is intended for RAHC employees, the material in the book would be useful for anyone interested in the cultural aspects of Indigenous health.