Recently, the term “subtle sexism” has started making its rounds in the medical field to describe the current state of affairs of the gender equity movement.  With overt sexism allegedly gone by the wayside, we are left instead with an...

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...

My introduction to internship was during my hooding ceremony at graduation when the revered, Dr. David Wagner hooded me and told me that internship was a time to become “intimate with disease and the suffering caused.”  “You will...

Women MD Resources Leads In Research in the Way Women Physicians Work Do women physicians work differently?  Absolutely.  Does it make a difference? Probably.  How well are they doing for their patients?  We don’t know.  And since women...