abstracts and bios cover_final.indd - LIME Network

The LIME NetworkThe LIME biennial conference is an outcome of the LIME Network, a Medical Deans Australia and NewZealand Project hosted by the Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit within the Melbourne School of PopulationHealth at The University of Melbourne. The aim of the LIME Network is to be a dynamic network dedicated toensuring the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning of Indigenous health in medical education, aswell as best practice in the recruitment and retention of Indigenous medical students.The LIME Connection provides an opportunity in which quality review, professional development, networking,capacity-building and advocacy functions of the network are actualised. This year’s conference focuses onAdvancing Indigenous Health: Workforce Innovations. Specifically, the conference will address leadingpractice approaches to integrating Indigenous health into medical education and workplace training andwill provide an opportunity to discuss and challenge some current practices and discuss emerging tools andtechniques to drive continuous improvement in outcomes for Indigenous health. The conference is beingheld under the auspices of Medical Deans, the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association and Te Ohu Rata OAotearoa (Te ORA) Māori Medical Practitioners Association of Aotearoa, and has benefitted from the support ofa number of other organisations.5