LIMECONNECTIONV - LIME Network

LIME Connection VRe-imagining Indigenous health education:Harnessing energy, implementing evidence,creating change.The fifth biennial LIME Connection is being held in Darwin, Northern Territory from 26-28 August 2013.Keynote speakers include experts in Indigenous health and medical education from Australia, Aotearoa/NewZealand, Hawai’i and Hong Kong. The target audience includes Indigenous and non-Indigenous medical and healtheducators, Indigenous health specialists, medical specialists, policy makers, students and community members.This year’s Connection will focus on Re-imagining Indigenous Health Education: Harnessing energy,implementing evidence, creating change.The theme of the Conference builds on the focus of evidence based practice at LIME Connection IV and aimsto capture new initiatives, share successful methods and workshop visions for the future through:• addressing leading approaches to the inclusion of Indigenous health into medical and health education;• providing an opportunity to discuss and critique current practices;• providing a space to explore emerging tools and techniques to drive improvement in outcomes forIndigenous health;• encouraging information sharing, professional development, capacity-building and networking amongstpeers;• supporting collaboration between medical schools;• building linkages with colleges and those from other health disciplines;• continuing to showcase the growing body of evidence illustrating the relationship between medicaleducation and Indigenous health with a view to publication of this evidence.LIME Connection V is being co-hosted by Charles Darwin University and Flinders University and is held underthe auspices of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand, the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association andTe Ohu Rata O Aotearoa (Te ORA) - Māori Medical Practitioners Association of Aotearoa.Initiatives relating to the following topics will be presented at the conference:• Implementing an evidence led curriculum;• Recruitment and graduation of Indigenous students;• Partnerships, placements and community engagement;• Student initiatives;10