Can you tell me about the mission of The Madam Dreamers Academy? The Madam Dreamers Academy (TMDA) was created in 2016 by a pediatrician and preventive medicine physician, Jasmine Zapata, MD, MPH, as a means of staying connected to her own mentees – both inside and outside of medicine. Since ... Read more
Jade O. Norman, PA-S3, MHS and Taylor Edwards
Updated August 8, 2022 by Jade O. Norman, PA-S3, MHS and Taylor Edwards
There is no good time to have a baby. This is especially true in the medical education pipeline. Having children before medical school delays your career. Waiting until residency allows for parental leave, but the ... Read more
Erin Wildermuth
Updated June 23, 2022 by Erin Wildermuth
The demographics of medicine are changing. Almost half of all graduating medical students are now female, which means that our medical communities are seeing more and more male spouses and partners of female physicians. Dual-physician ... Read more
Amy Rakowczyk
Updated January 7, 2020 by Amy Rakowczyk
A man and a woman step into an elevator wearing the exact same hospital scrub uniforms. The man’s pager suddenly starts beeping and the stranger in the elevator says to him, “Do you doctors really ... Read more
Karen Tran-Harding
Updated June 25, 2022 by Karen Tran-Harding
Reasons women should not pursue surgery discredited Before I even started medical school, I knew I wanted to be a surgeon. However—before I even started medical school—I had multiple people tell me all the reasons ... Read more
Kara Hessel
Updated June 26, 2022 by Kara Hessel
Republished with permission from here Black hellebore, a flower of the deepest black and with petals the sinister shape of blunted arrowheads, grows wild in the cool, mountainous regions of the Balkans. Despite its unintimidating ... Read more
Arya Shah
Updated June 26, 2022 by Arya Shah
It might actually come as a surprise to many would-be medical students that gender is an issue that still affects those who are training for a career as a doctor. After all, there are more ... Read more
Brian Wu
Updated June 26, 2022 by Brian Wu
One of the great things about your pre-clinical years (years 1 and 2) is that while you are studying all the time and trying to cram 500 facts into your head, you get to sample ... Read more
Adelle
Updated June 26, 2022 by Adelle