Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network

• Reach:

  National

• Focus area:

  Indigenous

• Category:

  Non-government

Description

The Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network facilitates collaboration between medical schools in Australia and New Zealand. Members of the LIME Network include medical educators, specialists in Indigenous health, policy makers, medical students and community members. The primary aim of the LIME Network is to improve Indigenous health by working collaboratively to ensure that:

• quality Indigenous health curriculum is taught in medical schools
• increasing numbers of Indigenous people choose to study medicine.

To achieve its aims, the LIME Network produces a variety of networking opportunities and resources. These include:

• the LIME Connection conference
• reference group meetings
• regional meetings
• the LIME Network newsletter
• the LIME Network website
• publications such as the Good practice case studies booklet
• internal review tools for medical schools
• the online Pathways into medicine resource.

The LIME Network is a program of Medical Deans Australia and New Zealand that receives funding from the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The LIME Network recognises and promotes the primacy of Indigenous leadership and knowledge.

Contacts

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network
Onemda VicHealth Koori Health Unit
Centre for Health and Society
Melbourne School of Population Health
The University of Melbourne
Level 4, 207 Bouverie St
The University of Melbourne
Melbourne Vic 3010
Ph: (03) 8344 9160
Fax: (03) 8344 0824
Email: lime-network@unimelb.edu.au

Related publications

LIME good practice case studies (2012)

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education

This publication showcases the varied programs and initiatives being undertaken at medical schools across Australia and New Zealand in relation to Indigenous medical education. It highlights long standing and successful programs together with new original and innovative programs. The case studies are examples of models of good practice which can provide valuable information for developing programs and strategies in the area of Indigenous medical education.

Australian Indigenous HealthInfoNet abstract

• Links
• View resource: LIME good practice case studies (PDF - 1.4 MB)
• View information: LIME good practice case studies
• View website: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (2011)

Lime connection IV: medical education for Indigenous health: building the evidence base post-conference report.

Melbourne: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education

• Links
• View report: Lime connection IV: medical education for Indigenous health: building the evidence base post-conference report (PDF - 6.6 MB)
• View information: Conference program and report 2011
• View website: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education

Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (2010)

LIME Connection III: post conference report.

Melbourne: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education

• Links
• View resource: LIME Connection III: post conference report (PDF - 2.7 MB)
• View information: Conference program and report 2009
• View website: The Lime Network

Australian Medical Students' Association (2007)

A report on conference proceedings: LIME Connection II.

Sydney: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network

• Links
• View report: A Report on Conference Proceedings (PDF - 299.5 KB)
• View website: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME)

Links

• View website: Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network