QMED Women in Medicine
14 Arch St. K7M 2A6 Kingston, ON, Canada

What is an ally? What is the importance of being an ally in medicine? How can we take steps to be effective allies? We are very excited to invite you to the Women In Medicine Interest Group's "Gender Equity in Healthcare" workshop, run by Dr. Erin Clow from the Queen's Human Rights and Equity Office. Learn about how to navigate situations of gender inequity in healthcare. This workshop will teach tangible skills on how to be an effective ally and run through various scenario...s that you may encounter in the hospital and during your medical education. Food will be provided! Schedule: Part I What is an ally -discussion of what it means to be an ally -characteristics of an ally -video (5 Tips for Being an Ally) Part 2 Scenarios -How would an ally respond? Sign up here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSdOy6G3HzLtZAk0-o/viewform

Come out to our Resident Pearls of Wisdom panel next Tuesday night from 6-8pm. There will be lots of delicious food!

"The research is published in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. Researchers from Harvard University reviewed the records of 1,583,028 hospital visits among Medicare patients. Within 30 days of arriving at the hospital, rates of death and re-admission were significantly lower when the patients doctor was female. This was true for people with medical conditions of all sorts and severities. The researchers tried to account for every variable; but ultimately all that was left ...was the finding that women are superior to men at treating these (65-and-older) patients in the hospital. The association held true even for patients who were randomly assigned to a physician when they arrived. People treated by a female had a 4 percent lower relative risk of dying and 5 percent lower relative risk of being admitted to the hospital again in the following month." See more

The tragic murder of a female family physician in Toronto reminds us that intimate partner violence can affect anyone, here are some examples of local resources for individuals suffering from IPV in Kingston and surrounding communities: 1. Kingston Sexual Assault Centre: http://www.sackingston.com/ and their 24h crisis line: 1-877-544-6424 2. Interval House Shelter for Women & Children in Crisis: http://kingstonintervalhouse.com/ and their 24h crisis line: 1-800-267-9445... *Other shelters can be found at Shelter Safe: http://www.sheltersafe.ca/ 3. KGH's Sexual Assault & Family Violence program, available 24/7: http://www.kgh.on.ca//e/sexual-assault-and-family-violence 4. K3C Counselling Centre has free, confidential Women's Counselling: http://www.k3c.org/WomensCounselling/tabid/119/Default.aspx or call: 613-549-7850 5. Queen's U Sexual Health Resource Centre: https://www.facebook.com/shrckingston/ can provide accompaniment to hospital appointments for abortion or sexual assault. Call: 613-533-2959 6. The OMA's Physician Helpline: http://php.oma.org/needhelp.html available M-F from 8:45am-5pm at 1-800-851-6606

Dr. Mala Joneja wanted to pass along a fantastic TedX talk from author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in which she presents her essay, "We should all be feminists." Entertaining, engaging, and thought-provoking - it's certainly worth the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg3umXU_qWc

Great blog post about the evolution of women in medicine.