The Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) wants to know about your COVID-19 experiences as healthcare providers via this survey. Please help contribute to this important research that is applying a gender-based lens to the pandemic response. The survey (5 minutes to complete) is available here. You can read more about… Read More »Medical Women’s International Association COVID-19 Survey
I was recently asked to speak about my pathway into medicine to year 12 students in Victoria during their ‘change of preferences’. Change of preferences is the window of time after students receive their final exam results and may have to reconsider their initial preferences to enter a university course.… Read More »‘Changing one’s preferences’: From art to medicine
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The Group of Eight (Go8) universities has released a report on the COVID-19 Roadmap to Recovery. Go8 convened a group of over a hundred of the country’s leading epidemiologists, infectious disease consultants, public health specialists, healthcare professionals, mental health and well-being practitioners, indigenous scholars, communications and behaviour change experts, ethicists,… Read More »Group of Eight COVID-19 Roadmap to Recovery
World-renowned Australian obstetrician and humanitarian Dr Catherine Hamlin has died at age 96 on the 18th March, 2020. Dr Catherine Hamlin dedicated her life to founding clinics in Ethiopia giving free obstetric fistula repair surgery. You can read more about Catherine’s extraordinary life here. Dr Catherine Hamlin, photograph from https://hamlin.org.au/catherine-hamlin/… Read More »Renowned Australian obstetrician Dr Catherine Hamlin dies aged 96
The Report from the AMA Gender Equity Summit held on 23 March 2019 in Sydney is now available. The Report identifies nine key actions we can all take to achieve gender equity in the medical profession and workplace. Read it here on the AMA website.
The VMWS Annual General Meeting is around the corner, and we’re looking for enthusiastic, committed medical women to fill the following roles!
The 2019 Constance Stone orator is Dr Rosalie Cooper. Rosalie has a long association with VMWS and AFMW and is currently the treasurer of VMWS and National Council of Women representative. Rosalie was born in Tasmania and graduated with an MBBS from the University of Melbourne in 1961. Rosalie’s successful… Read More »Constance Stone Oration 2019 – Dr Rosalie Cooper
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