Women In Medicine

CHICAGO — In medicine, a patient’s lived experience can often be dismissed, but a physician’s lived experience and storytelling could provide needed context and make health care education more accessible, according to a speaker.

CHICAGO — In this Healio video exclusive at the Women in Medicine Summit, Kierstin Kennedy, MD, MSHA, FACP, SFHM, discusses why more women are needed now more than ever in the C-Suite.

CHICAGO — In this Healio video exclusive, experts discussed the significance of men in leadership positions to be an ally to women in medicine.

Shikha Jain, MD, FACP, and Avital Y. O’Glasser, MD, FACP, FHM, have published an anthology focused on the need for change and growth in addressing gender inequities in medicine.

Patients treated by female surgeons had lower rates of adverse postoperative outcomes, including death and major medical complications, at 90 days and 1 year compared with those treated by male surgeons, according to data in JAMA Surgery.

Published results showed women are underrepresented among orthopedic fellowship program directors, especially in orthopedic sports medicine, shoulder and elbow, and adult reconstruction subspecialties.

Women in Medicine recently announced a new partnership with LeanIn.Org to launch WIM Lean In Circles — small groups that will meet regularly for peer mentorship.

MARCO ISLAND, Fla. — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium, Lisa M. Nijm, MD, JD, overviews the wide range of eye care topics featured at the meeting.

As a wife, mother, community specialist and owner of an independent practice, I often am torn in millions of directions — and the pressure can be tremendous.

Portraying professional women as superheroes who “do it all” can foster a narrative that can hold them back from career advancement, according to a presenter at the 2023 AWIR annual conference.