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Today is the five year anniversary of the launch of FemInEM. We started this organization with the goal of empowering women in emergency medicine and advocating for greater gender equity within the physician workforce. Over the past five years our community has grown and with that our mission has expanded to fight against other areas of inequity and injustice within healthcare. Unfortunately, on this anniversary we are reminded that there is still much work to be done and our ability to practice as physicians and have autonomy over our own bodies is still under threat – now more than ever.&nbs ..read more

I’ve always said that I wish I had FemInEM back when I was in training. I was pregnant with my first child during the last year of my medical toxicology fellowship. I was the first fellow in over a decade to be pregnant during training and I felt very isolated and unsure about my future. Watching some of  my co-residents navigate pregnancy during training made me feel that being pregnant was a liability — that it would be difficult to be taken seriously or negotiate on the interview trail. Most of the advice I had received from mentors over the years was that as a woman in medicine I woul ..read more

There was not much that I expected to look forward to while being pregnant in residency during a worldwide pandemic. I found out I was pregnant in August 2020 which meant that I would spend most of my senior year growing a little human. I felt blessed, don’t get me wrong. But I came to terms with the fact that pregnancy and residency was simply not the norm.  First came the anxiety of telling my program leadership and having to change my schedule. Then the fear of telling my coresidents and wondering if they worried about how this could impact them. I also agonized over what my attendings ..read more

Dr. Diane Birnbaumer and Dr. Tracy Sanson are well known on the Emergency Medicine Speaker Circuit. In their FIX19 talk, they share the lessons they have learned as they have built this important part of their careers. Watch their FIX19 talk below! The post Your Voice & Your Value: Lessons for the Speaking Circuit appeared first on FemInEM ..read more

I’ve been sixteen for thirty years.  At age eight the road was paved with a ripe philosophical certainty my mother mistook for stubbornness.  Now I imagine myself infinitely staving off the dark circles under my eyes with sheer gusto, leaving wrinkle removers for the less spirited. Yet, a twinge of my lower back catapults me into a kaleidoscope of disability as I find myself hunched and twisted supervising a resident doctor place a large intravenous line in the neck of our patient. One debilitating spasm kickstarts my mind into calculating which portion of my future spending will be ..read more

“Myers! Wake up. We have casualties coming in. We need you.” A gruff nudge jerked me awake from a brief two hours of sleep. I rolled off my cot, fumbled for my boots and stumbled bleary-eyed from the canvas tent I called home for six months while in Afghanistan. When I arrived in the ED, I sought out the team leader to receive my assignment. As I gathered my supplies, I glanced over each of the other trauma bays. Team members were taking their positions. There was an attitude of gravid anticipation as we prepared for a scene that had become hauntingly familiar. Some were quiet; others tried to ..read more

“Can I ask a maybe-inappropriate, slightly personal question?” one of the emergency medicine residents paused to ask me. “Are you going to get the COVID vaccine? My wife is also a pregnant physician, and I value your opinion.” We were in the doc box, my growing belly no longer hidden by baggy scrub-tops. This wasn’t the first time that a colleague had asked me this question, and it wouldn’t be the last.  “Yes, I got it last week,” I replied. Although I felt like I was shouting through my N95, my voice was probably barely audible over the buzz of conversations and music playing around us ..read more

‘Twas right before shift change, when all thru the shop, All the drunks were stirring, some led by a cop The IV’s were hung at the bedside with care In hopes that the next shift would soon be there The admits were tucked in snug in their beds While echoes of report danced in their heads.   And the attending in white coat, and I in my jacket Had just settled down from the last resus racket When by the ambulance bay rose such a clatter We sprang from our chairs to see what was the matter Away to the trauma bay I flew like a flash Threw on the lead coat and velcro’d the sash.   The c ..read more

Joannie Yeh MD is a primary care pediatrician and a clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. She is a cofounder of Girl Med Media, a non-profit supporting women in medicine, and is also a founding member of Times Up Healthcare and blogs at Betamomma.com about children’s health topics and empowers parents to be okay with okay-ish parenting. In her FIX19 talk, Dr. Yeh uses her personal experiences and growth to explore self awareness and emotional intelligence. Watch the full FIX19 talk below! The post Taking a Cue from EQ a ..read more