Category : Women In Healthcare
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The Historical Role of Women in the Creation and Growth of The Children’s Hospital of Buffalo–Part 1
The Women’s Health Professionals Endowment Fund–Philanthropy Combined with Advocacy In 1995, 7 women clinicians–physicians, nurses, PhDs and others–formed the Women Health Professionals Endowment Fund. We grew to more than...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Last week I wrote about flexibility in transforming the careers of women physicians. Necessary but not sufficient. Now, how do we build flexibility into the workplace? Generally evolving workplace trends are also operant for physicians in the...
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