Don’t Miss the Global Women’s Leadership Summit Just for Professional Women “I can’t go to another meeting!”  Well, you don’t have to.  This meeting is going to come to you. And it’s all about leadership...

Chapter 10:  A New Place, Again by Jane Doe, MD My place of fellowship training is a university system but a consortium of hospitals.  I am in a new location this week.  Each institution has a distinct culture I am told.  It is certainly true...

 Chapter 9–Life Happens to Everyone.  Paying Forward to Pay Back. By Jane Doe, MD I have what I hope to be a budding friendship with two of my peers for the coming year.  These are the only ones of the fifteen of us with whom I have been...

Chapter 8:  Is Anonymity the Refuge of a Coward? By Jane Doe, MD I would have answered “Yes” to that question in most circumstances before I began this project so why am I anonymous?  Could I not protect the privacy of others by omitting...

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 Medical Mid-Life Sabbatical–Chapter 3 By Jane Doe, MD This is the third in a series of posts about returning to training at mid-life.  Now a little more than a week into a yearlong fellowship in a technical area of my specialty, I offer...