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The VMWS Annual General Meeting is around the corner, and we’re looking for enthusiastic, committed medical women to fill the following roles!
The VMWS Annual General Meeting is around the corner, and we’re looking for enthusiastic, committed medical women to fill the following roles!
The 1 September marks the 60th anniversary of the first female member appointment to Senior Medical Staff at the Royal Melbourne Hospital – Dr Margaret Henderson OBE. Dr Henderson was born in 1915. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1938 and was appointed a Resident Medical Officer at… Read More »Dr Margaret Henderson OBE – 60th anniversary of the first female senior medical staff appointment
Women at the UN Special Event © Desiree Yap Report written by Dr Madhura Naidu, VMWS Secretary and ICU Registrar The Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) was founded in 1919, when a group of medical women from various countries came together in New York City to have dinner and discuss… Read More »Medical Women’s International Association Centennial Congress New York City, 2019
Professor Helena Teede, Executive Director, Monash Partners Academic Health Research Translation Centre and Director, Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University, and Dr Elizabeth Sigston, ENT, Head and Neck Cancer Surgeon, talk about the ‘leaky pipeline’ and the persistence of gender inequity in medicine. Listen to The Health… Read More »Women in Medical Leadership
I have had the pleasure and privilege of launching the book Women to the Front, by Dr Heather Sheard and Dr Ruth Lee, to a packed audience in St David’s Hall of the Welsh church in La Trobe Street, Melbourne. St David’s Hall was once used by Constance Stone and… Read More »President’s Message June 2019
A wonderful look at gender (in)equity in the home by French artist Emma. Read the comic here.
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The Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill is slated to be introduced in NSW, which will decriminalise abortion in the state. This is certainly a wonderful piece of news to be rejoiced by women throughout the nation. Click here to read the article in full: https://womensagenda.com.au/latest/time-for-change-nsw-finally-set-to-decriminalise-abortion/
Hazel Edwards spoke to us at our Literary Luncheon in 2017. Her book of plays, Re-enact, recently reissued introduces a lighthearted series of short plays for secondary schools. They include a play about Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Hospital, the first Australian hospital set up for and staffed by women. Other plays… Read More »Re-enact: Eight Plays by Hazel Edwards
We have reflected on a Strategic Plan for the ensuing year(s) ahead. The VMWS committee met on December 3rd 2018 at 7pm, as we traditionally do, at the Lyceum Club in Melbourne. We welcome non-committee members to attend as ‘visitors’ upon request. We commenced by revisiting our ‘vision’: ‘To promote and… Read More »President’s Message February 2019
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