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ACEP Now: Vol 37 – No 01 – January 2018FIX 2017 speaker Amy Faith Ho, MD. PHOTO: Marc Goldberg © FemInEM
FIX 2017 Conference Seeks to Improve Gender Equity in the Field of Emergency Medicine
IX 2017 speaker Jenice Forde-Baker, MD.
PHOTO: Marc Goldberg © FemInEM
We really were thoroughly appreciative and impressed with how many people showed up, how many sponsors supported us, how many attendings sponsored a resident, and how many departments sent their residents and attendings to the conference. It was a huge success. We had a pretty big impact on the Twitter-sphere; we had over 18 million Twitter impressions in two and a half days from a conference of only 250 people. It was really a magical space; it was supportive and inclusive and just a very cool experience. I couldn’t be more proud of what we put together. We’ll do it again because there’s no way that we can leave this as a one-hit wonder.
KK: Can you talk more in detail about what you did? Were there didactic lectures and workshops? What were your goals?
DK: We were really just trying to have each person in the room reconnect with the thing that makes them passionate as a doctor and as a person. The first two days were entirely didactic-based; we had a lot of breaks for networking and talking to speakers and things like that. We wanted our different speakers to tell their story of what aspect of medicine and their human experience allows them to be who they are. For example, we had an EMS provider Kathy Staats talk about women in EMS crashing the party. We had a residency director talk about what inspired her as an educator. We had discussions on burnout and wellness, resilience, and so much more, like success and failure, imposter syndrome, patient safety, and inner-city violence. We had an entire session on institutional racism and how that affects women and others in medicine. We ended with Lynne Richardson talking about leadership development for physicians, including careers in research. The two days were infused with a lot of networking because one of the best skills we can give to women, but really anybody in medicine, is the chance to connect with others.
FIX 2017 attendee Ellen Weber, MD, stands during one of the conference sessions. PHOTO: Marc Goldberg © FemInEM
FIX 2017 attendees network at one of the conference’s breaks. PHOTO: Marc Goldberg © FemInEM
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2 Responses to “FIX 2017 Conference Seeks to Improve Gender Equity in the Field of Emergency Medicine”
January 28, 2018
Larry CohenI find in general, women physicians do make less then men. However, I haven’t seen any gender bias causing it. What I have seen is that some women are not as “fast” as some men, which, decreases their salary. Where I work, and other than the USAF, my other position over the last 26 years in practice is the women have less overall productivity. I have only worked in private groups, and we have been, for the most part fee RVU based compensation. Now with that, there are some women that beat the heck out of a lot of men in this way. And actually, the only complaints about salary where I work (100,000+/yr) are from some of the men, that are very “slow” and feel productivity is wrong and everyone should get an equal share…and every participant should get a trophy
February 4, 2018
concerned male future EM physicianI am unsure if it is possible to “see bias” as most bias tends to be implicit and thus largely invisible. Secondly, are there any studies showing that women are “not as fast as men?” I would presume not. If anything, with the younger generation being naturally more adept at EMR, I would guess that the new generation of female physicians would be faster than the older men of the past generation. Additionally, without providing evidence to support your claims, I think your comment contradicts itself, as you appear to have implicit stereotypes about female physicians which leads to wage gaps between genders. I believe the purpose of such conferences is not to incite a gender or generational war, but rather to help us identify the biases that we have, and in turn create a more equitable workplace.