Here at sheMD, we believe in the importance of practicing Evidence-Based Medicine. We believe the same principles apply to discussing Gender and Medical Education. Therefore, we are bringing you an entire Journal Club series! Our series focuses on foundational and new literature within the gender and medicine space. This post contains affiliate links. SheMD will make a commission at no extra cost to you should you click the link and make a purchase. Read our disclosure for mo

As I prepared to go the AAFP national conference in Kansas City—to my first family medicine conference (and second national conference ever), I mentally reviewed things I would need to pack: Toiletries? Check. Audiobook for the drive? Check. But when I began thinking about which outfits to pack, I completely drew a blank. It wasn’t like I had never needed to dress professionally before, but it felt like a more high-stakes situation when I would be networking and mingling with

In my college admission essays, I wrote about my shortcomings as a high school athlete and student in pursuit of one day becoming a doctor. In my medical school personal statement, I again wrote about many failures I experienced as a collegiate athlete, still in pursuit of medical education. Today, as a newly dubbed “Student Doctor” after officially passing the USMLE Step 1 board exam, I again feel compelled to rehash the most devastating, embarrassing, humbling, I-...

Some people enter medical school with a particular specialty in mind, and after matching blissfully spend the rest of their lives practicing in that very same field. Most, however, change their mind rotation by rotation, ultimately making up their mind during their third year. Have you ever worried about what would happen if you changed your mind? Or what would happen if you matched into general surgery, only to dream of another specialty? Keep on reading for part one of Dr.

Some people enter medical school with a particular specialty in mind, and after matching blissfully spend the rest of their lives practicing in that very same field. Most, however, change their mind rotation by rotation, ultimately making up their mind during their third year. Have you ever worried about what would happen if you changed your mind? Or what would happen if you matched into general surgery, only to dream of another specialty? Keep on reading for part one of Dr.

Here at sheMD, we believe in the importance of practicing Evidence-Based Medicine. We believe the same principles apply to discussing Gender and Medical Education. Therefore, we are bringing you an entire Journal Club series! Our series will focus on foundational and new literature within the gender and medicine space. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2146981/ Why is this article important? Female physicians are more likely than male physicians to start working

As Editor of SheMD, I'm sharing my story of #PhysicianInfertility, because we have to start the conversation. We have to talk about the fact that we, female physicians, have INCREASED rates of infertility. Physician infertility isn't something we learn about in medical school. We learn about physician infertility when we become the patient, when it may be too late. My fertility journey is not typical. I have not spent years “trying”. In fact, I have spent years trying NOT

This post contains affiliate links. SheMD will make a commission at no extra cost to you should you click the link and make a purchase. Read our disclosure for more info. In medicine, there is an added pressure among female physicians to be “strong.” To work extra hard as a physician (while also being a perfect “mom,” “wife,” or “daughter” outside the hospital), and to exhibit resiliency when faced with micro aggressions and inequality in the workplace. Yet, even after years

In honor of National Infertility Awareness Week #NIAW2022 and the reality that ONE in FOUR female physicians will face infertility, we're sharing information on egg and embryo freezing or cryopreservation. These are very personal decisions, and there is NO RIGHT ANSWER. Our goal is to empower women to make the decisions that are "right" for their personal lives - allowing them to choose both career and family if they so desire. We aim to provide information to help future ge

I want to have kids young and I want to get married young. This is a strange thing to hear from a twenty-two year old in 2019. “Don’t you want to live your life and not be tied down?”, “You have to be established in your career first.”. Other women look at me as if I am telling them I want to be a housewife and I’m setting the feminist movement back sixty years. These are the types of comments I get from my friends. The same friends who at twenty-two are done with school, be