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Imposter Syndrome If you are a physician reading this, please pat yourself on the back. You made it through medical school and residency so, de facto, you have both resiliency and grit (serious buzzwords, y’all). But as anyone who has gone through these professional challenges, it often doesn’t seem so. I am 44 years old and am… Read More
Top 40 Physicians Under 40 Top 40 Physicians Under 40 Congratulations to Kristin Ondecko Ligda, MD, who was named as one of the “Top 40 Physicians Under 40” by the Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED). Read More
Expectations of Brilliance/Sexism in Science 1) Expectations of Brilliance Underlie Gender Distributions Across Academic Disciplines. 2) Sexism in Science. 3) Male Scientist Writes of Life as Female Scientist. Read More
Unconscious Bias in Faculty and Leadership Recruitment: A Literature Review Although women and minorities have made significant strides in achieving equality in the workplace, they are still underrepresented in the upper strata of organizations, including senior faculty and leadership positions at medical schools and teaching hospitals. Read More
The ABCs of learning and teaching in medicine by David M Kaufman How many times have we as teachers been confronted with situations in which we really were not sure what to do? We “flew by the seat of our pants,” usually doing with our learners what had been done with us. It would be useful to be able to turn to a set of guiding principles… Read More
A Medical Educator’s Guide to #MedEd The purpose of this diagram is to educate novice, but frequent "tweeters" on the possible uses of Twitter in medical education by highliting the usefullness of #MedEd as an educational tool in independent learning and teaching. Read More
Likeability Penalty 1) Does Sheryl Sandbergs ikeability penalty really exist. 2) For Women Leaders, Likability and Success Hardly Go Hand-in-Hand. 3) “What Works For Women at Work” by Joan Williams and Rachel Dempsey. 4) What Works for Women at Work Resources. Read More
When We Need to Lean Out A few years ago, my colleagues and I started a non-profit called Women in Anesthesiology. I started medical school late and had two children in residency (earning the delightful label of elderly primigravida or, if you prefer, geriatric pregnancy). My co-resident and I noticed few women in our department, and even fewer in leadership. We… Read More