As a satellite organization of @500womensci, we are working to increase the representation, visibility, and unity of women in academic and clinical medicine.
Some big news: 500 Women in Medicine is fully integrating into @500womensci. Check out the blog post here for more context and next steps: https://t.co/t52E85Fr85
We continue to strive to reach and support women in and across all science fields and work to enact institutional and culture change to ensure all underrepresented groups have the chance to thrive and succeed in science.
If you’ve been involved in @500WIM, you are absolutely welcome in @500womensci, in local pods, in our campaigns, and in the organization’s leadership. We want you.
Members of the current 500 WIM leadership team will continue to weigh in on various projects, such as revamping the Request a Woman Scientist platform, and many will continue on the 500WS leadership team.
We believe that fully integrating 500WIM into 500 Women Scientists will help everyone involved center our shared mission to advance inclusion, equity and justice in all our scientific fields. Thus, we are taking the steps to do that.
And, over the last year we have learned that having a satellite organization focused on medicine sends a mixed message about what kinds of experts are considered “scientists,” which undermines our goal of inclusion.
Over the last year, @500WIM has grown, created an internal leadership team, published articles, attended medical conferences, and reached out to many women across medical fields. This org has done amazing work!
The goals of @500WIM were to bring attention to the underrepresentation of women within the medical sciences and to better integrate #womeninmedicine into the @500womensci network.
In December 2018, we launched 500 Women in Medicine (@500WIM) as a satellite of the main 500 Women Scientists organization in an effort to reach more women in the medical sciences.
In this week’s🎙Growth Edge🎙podcast episode, I share a behind the scenes peek at the 2019 @WIMSummit with co-founder and co-director @ShikhaJainMD. She shares:
🎤 speaker highlights
💡 key takeaways
🎯 the #GenderMoonshot campaign
https://t.co/PWr6Mfy43p
Felisha Rohan Minjares MD, an associate professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine, states that “promoting social justice should be core to the identity of every physician”. https://t.co/ADiYaM1oeN
@FelicityEnders @EKTBenn@choo_ek@StatGirlLAM@RahmaWarsameMD@jballs1908@goodmanthebrain@500womensci@500WIM I strongly feel that in order for real change in D&I to happen, there needs to be a change in WHO is in leadership.
Leaders influence the culture - values, underlying beliefs, assumptions, & behaviors-of departments, institutions & organizations.