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CREATE CLARITY.BUILD CONFIDENCE. TAKE CONTROL.
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November 20, 2012
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Elections are Over, Let the Work Begin!
If we learned anything from the recent elections, we learned that women’s voices (and their vote) are important, very important. 53% of the electorate was women. 20% of the representatives in the Senate and House are women, found on both sides of the aisle. Making progress, but numbers are not enough.
Our numbers continue to increase in the House of Medicine, and so will our voices when we learn to use them and identify those issue women physicians care about.
In a very unscientific, just-for-fun poll, WMDR asked mostly women physicians the question: “Which issue is most likely to influence your vote in the upcoming election? ” There were almost 100 respondents, so we thought you might like to see the results now that the elections (and their polls) are over…
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Pre-Med
What does it take, and do you have it? Learn what it takes to make getting in the easy part.
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Medical Student
What does success look like for you? And how do you get there?
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Trainee
Internship, residency…Limbo. But you can shape the road ahead.
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Practicing Physician
Whether you’re a rookie or a seasoned professional, learn how to have the career you want.
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Are You a Disruptive Physician? 5 Ways to Avoid Becoming a Target
Your actions might be getting you labeled. Learn how to be a change agent—but not a target.
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Toward a New Definition of Medical Professionalism — Lessons to Be Learned from Hurricane Sandy
Do emotion and empathy have a place in the medical world?
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How to Get Paid What You Are Worth — 6 Ways to Close the Gender Pay Gap
6 must-read strategies for getting the salary you deserve.
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Increasingly important and are the personal values that physicians bring to the healthcare arena. As the workforce changes, these values are going to change as well. An article from Finland encourages us to think about what values we might consider as the US healthcare workforce evolves to include more women.
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Personal values of male and female doctors: gender aspects.
Neittaanmaki, L, Gross, E, Firjo, I, Hypposa, H, Kumpusalo, E. “Personal Values of Male and Female Doctors: Gender Aspects.” Social Science and Medicine 48 (1999) 559-568.
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Tip of the Month
Get involved to make meaningful change. Take a few minutes every day (ten minutes converts is only one hour a week, 5 hours a month, or 60 hours a year) to contribute to a cause that is important to you as a woman in medicine. Join a group, read or write an article, subscribe to a blog feed, or help a colleague sort out a problem. Get involved to make meaningful change.
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