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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...