Slice of LIME 15.2: LIME Connection X Dr Andrea Mckivett Keynote Presention

The tenth biennial Leaders in Indigenous Medical Education (LIME) Network LIME Connection conference was hosted by Australian National University on Ngambri & Ngunnawal Country, Canberra, Australia from 22 – 25 October 2023.

LIME Connection X theme:
Decolonising education – through critique to transformative learning and teaching.

Decolonisation requires an interrogation of the processes, culture and assumptions of power. It is to seek transformation through education; to critique the replication of existing structures and ways of thinking. It is a disruption seeking to broaden thinking beyond accepted knowledge, practice, theory and research.

Dr Andrea McKivett is a Gija health academic from the Kimberley with Scottish and Irish
ancestry.

Dr McKivett has completed her PhD at the University of Adelaide in
Indigenous medical education. Her work was guided by her interest in healthcare inequity and the fundamental importance of communication to improving care for Indigenous Australians in clinical practice. Drawing upon learnings from Indigenous scholars in Canada and Aotearoa to guide her theoretical approach she developed a communication framework to assist healthcare practitioners have more effective clinical conversations with Aboriginal patients and their families.

Dr McKivett’s work is guided by a strong approach to Indigenous Governance. For her PhD research she collaborated with an Indigenous Governance Group who informed her approach, and strengthened the process and outcomes of the work.

Dr McKivett has worked as an academic and researcher at the University of Notre Dame Fremantle, the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute, the University of Adelaide and Flinders University.