27 11.2011
Organizational Change:  Ten Steps Towards Creating Your Gender Mentoring Program for Women Physicians

Organizational Change: Ten Steps Towards Creating Your Gender Mentoring Program for Women Physicians

Contributed by Julie Welch in Blog Feature, Inevitable Forum, Organizational Reform | 0 comments

Even without a guidebook or step-by-step plan, our program emerged first from a perceived, and then, from a real need.  Using the monthly themes from our discussions, surveying the group about their interests, and then reading the literature for...

16 11.2011
Organizational Change:  Building a Gender Mentoring Program for Women in Emergency Medicine

Organizational Change: Building a Gender Mentoring Program for Women in Emergency Medicine

Contributed by Julie Welch in Blog Feature, Career Transformation, Gender Bias, Gender Equality, Healthcare Workplace Equality, Inevitable Forum, Organizational Reform, Women In Healthcare | 0 comments

Mentoring is about building relationships that help guide the newbie through the labyrinth of experiences a physician faces.  Many women have men as mentors for those areas that were considered gender neutral.  But for the specific issues that...

3 11.2011
Organizational Change–Mentoring Program for Women Physicians in Emergency Medicine

Organizational Change–Mentoring Program for Women Physicians in Emergency Medicine

Contributed by Julie Welch in Blog Feature, Gender Equality, Inevitable Forum, Women In Healthcare | 0 comments

ETI member Julie Welch, MD offers the first post of a three part series–how to develop a women’s mentoring program.  Thanks, Julie.  Linda Brodsky, MD As a new physician, fresh out of residency, I was used to the “old boy’s...

28 10.2011
$75,000 Prize Established to Recognize Women Scientists Work on Women’s Health Issues

$75,000 Prize Established to Recognize Women Scientists Work on Women’s Health Issues

Contributed by Linda Brodsky in Blog Feature, Inevitable Forum, Women In Healthcare | 1 comment

Women in STEMM (Science, technology, engineering, math, and medicine) fields have not received their share of awards and prizes. That is, unless the chair of the prize committee is a woman, which is also unusual in most situations. Prizes with...

21 9.2011
Pregnancy Leave During Residency? Opportunities for Organizational Change!

Pregnancy Leave During Residency? Opportunities for Organizational Change!

Contributed by Linda Brodsky in Blog Feature, Healthcare Workplace Equality, Inevitable Forum, Organizational Reform | 4 comments

Almost 50% of residents are women.  It is estimated that 20% of them will become pregnant during their training.  Is this a cause for alarm?Program directors wonder: Who will cover the call schedule? Can the resident finish her educational...

30 8.2011
Physician Career Pathway Expectations Require Elastic Healthcare Practice Environments

Physician Career Pathway Expectations Require Elastic Healthcare Practice Environments

Contributed by Linda Brodsky in Blog Feature, Inevitable Forum, Organizational Reform | 0 comments

Once upon a time a doctor first attended 3 or 4 years of college, then finished 3 or 4 years of medical school, trudged through 1 to 8 years of residency training to hang out “a shingle,” and finally begin to practice medicine, usually in solo...

17 8.2011
Enlightened Physicians and Healthcare Workplaces Will Reject that Women Physicians are Responsible for the Expected Physician Shortage

Enlightened Physicians and Healthcare Workplaces Will Reject that Women Physicians are Responsible for the Expected Physician Shortage

Contributed by Linda Brodsky in Blog Feature, Gender Bias, Gender Equality, Healthcare Workplace Equality, Inevitable Forum | 0 comments

Expediting The Inevitable is an organization dedicated to changing the way the healthcare marketplace and women physicians engage to achieve business growth and clinical excellence without sacrificing quality of patient care. But every time we begin...

10 8.2011
Have You Experienced Gender Discrimination In Medicine? Brigham and Women’s Researcher Lisa Lehmann, MD PhD, MPH Wants to Interview You

Have You Experienced Gender Discrimination In Medicine? Brigham and Women’s Researcher Lisa Lehmann, MD PhD, MPH Wants to Interview You

Contributed by Linda Brodsky in Blog Feature, Gender Bias, Inevitable Forum, Your Questions | 1 comment

ETI member, Dr. Lisa Lehmann is the director of the Center for Bioethics at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts. After hearing about the struggles and experiences...