VMWS president Dr Magdalena Simonis sifts through the sea of information on the coronavirus and separates facts from fiction. You can read this article on the RACGP website here. Photo by Markus Winkler on Unsplash
These are difficult times for all of us. I am hoping we can recover from this as a nation and as a people soon. Only 2 weeks ago, we hosted our very successful How We Do What We Do Leadership Workshop. How fortunate that we timed it for International Women’s… Read More »President’s Message March 2020
We have a few exciting and important VMWS events approaching, the details of which you can find in this February newsletter. First off is our annual ‘How We Do What We Do’ event, with the especially important theme this year of ‘Women in Leadership.’ This interactive workshop will be held… Read More »President’s Message February 2020
Listen to our president Dr Magdalena Simonis discuss historical medical women on this special episode of 3RRR program Max Headroom. Jenny Davis explores the history of female medical doctors in 19th century Melbourne. She chats to: Dr Merrilyn Murnane, retired consultant paediatrician at Queen Victoria Memorial Hospital, then Monash Medical… Read More »Radio interview: Explore the history of female medical doctors
For International Women’s Day 2020, explore the female pioneers of the past and their effect on the present in this article on the RACGP website – written by VMWS president Dr Magdalena Simonis. Australia’s first hospital founded by women for women was the old Queen Victoria Hospital in Melbourne, circa… Read More »Why I want doctors to know the secret history of our medical women
VMWS supports Doctors for the Environment Australia with their ongoing efforts in the climate health emergency.
The Victorian Medical Women’s Society actively campaigns for Climate Change Awareness. We acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change is an urgent global health and urgent women’s health challenge which occurs mainly due to human-related greenhouse gas emissions which results in global warming which is accelerating and will not stabilise without significant… Read More »Climate Emergency
WELCOME to our final newsletter for 2019. As we draw upon the close of 2019, our annual report confirms that it has been a year of tremendous networking opportunities for our members both locally and internationally, at the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) Centennial in New York. Some of us… Read More »President’s Message November 2019
The month of July was dominated by the Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) Centennial Conference in Brooklyn, New York. I attended along with 42 other Australians. This was the largest contingent of Australian Federation of Medical Women (AFMW) members to attend an MWIA conference. Several of our members participated as… Read More »President’s Message August 2019
Dr Magdalena Simonis, MBBS; FRACGP; DRANZCOG; University of Melbourne Honorary Research Fellow, Department of General Practice Introduction of a Hospital Doctor Strengths-based Mentoring Program (SBMP): Young hospital doctors suffer higher depression/anxiety and suicide rates than the general population, and psychological distress is significantly greater in doctors in comparison to the… Read More »VMWS Member Presentations at MWIA Centennial Congress
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