Sarah MacVicar

General Surgery Resident | Occasional soapboxer and creative writer with a penchant for bad puns and polar bears. She/her.

[Sarah MacVicar @sarahmacv]

Outstanding article from @UAlbertaSurgery General Surgery grad Dr. Krista Lai (one of my main resident mentors as an impressionable R1) as part of Dr. Erika Rangel’s ongoing research in this area. Congrats Lai et al! 🎉

[Erika Rangel @ErikaRangelMD]

Thank you @annalsofsurgery for publishing our data underscoring high risk of obstetric complications/infertility among female surgeons. As a profession we must do better to safeguard maternal-fetal health and educate surgical trainees on risk https://t.co/X3l95sN4wO

[Dylan Clark @dylanclarkBC]

Reluctantly back on twtr for this... but it's important📣

🇨🇦 Just released its first national adaptation strategy. I looked specifically at the health components🩺

The strategy is a step forward, but it's not going to help me sleep better. Here's why:

#NAS #Adaptation🧵

[Alicia Elliott - AND THEN SHE FELL out now! @WordsandGuitar]

My heart hurts for the Mik'maw. They've been asking for @JustinTrudeau and other leaders to step in and control their white citizens who are committing acts of terrorism against them for having treaty rights. Now this fire has taken everything from them. They deserve restitution.

[Sarah Freeman @SarahAFreeman2]

Only in medicine are you expected to pay hundreds to APPLY to write an exam (which will then cost over $1000 to actually write). Where does all the $ from debt-ridden trainees go, @Royal_College?

[Allison Brown @allison_brown99]

Is surgery still a boys club? What about at a medical school where >50% of surgical trainees are women?

Spoiler alert: Yes. Yes it is.
Sometimes you need to conduct a study to show water is wet.

Our study (@sarahglaze) published in @JSurgEduc here:
https://t.co/qxVLCtvYYi

[University of Alberta BMSA @AlbertaBMSA]

We’re excited to release our Calls To Action to @UofA_FOMD today! The drafting of this document was met with positive Faculty feedback and we look forward to successful implementation of our recommendations in the coming cycle. The full document is available through link in bio.

[Dr. Rita McCracken, MD, PhD (she/her) @DrRitaMc]

Any doctors / medical organizations wondering what it looks like to have structure facilitating racism?

Here is an example.

Maybe we just toss the MCAT? (Like some 🇨🇦med schools have already done)

@UBCmedicine @DoctorsOfBC @BCFamilyDoctors @CMA_Docs

[LaShyra Nolen, MD, MPP @LashNolen]

I've been told over and over again that a career in medicine means becoming a life-long learner. The same applies to being anti-racist.

No matter how many panels, workshops, committees, or task forces that come of this moment, it's important to remember this work is LIFE long.

[Iku Nwosu, MD @IkuNwosu]

More thorough conversations need to be had on how classist the MCAT is when used for medical school applicants.

The argument is sometimes made that the test is used as a "filter" (i.e. a hurdle) with low cutoffs and that it is not weighed heavily in applications. #MedTwitter/1

[Qaali Hussein, MD @QaaliHussein1]

Diversity and equity in surgery matter because :

👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

Can we move on to solutions within the existing surgical force now?

[Rhea Boyd MD, MPH @RheaBoydMD]

Today, my co-authors and I wrote a sentence in @NEJM that I will remember for the rest of my career.

I hope you read the piece, but if you only read one thing, know this.

"Black people are loved."

https://t.co/llNVnR9nAv

[Cheyenne LaForme @cheyennelaforme]

If this #Qbank question accurately reflects the #MCCQE content than @MedCouncilCan has bigger problems than scheduling and technical errors. Is perpetuating harmful stereotypes about #Indigenous Canadians and other racial minorities part of the physician licensing process?

[Christina Amutah MD, MPH @ChristinaAmutah]

10 questions for non-Black medical students to reflect on during this time ⚡️

Read aloud a version of these questions to 400 of my peers yesterday and was asked to share them publicly.

#MedTwitter #MedStudentTwitter

[Tamorah Lewis, MD, PhD @TamorahLewisMD]

The number of physicians I see on Twitter absolving themselves from change and action by saying “my anti-racist act is taking excellent care of each of my patients” is alarming and points to a major part of the problem.

A thread..

[krista loewen @kristalisette]

Vanmala Subramaniam: Before you declare Canada is not a racist country, do your homework https://t.co/fcyAQF0yA9 @VanmalaS

[Rhea Boyd MD, MPH @RheaBoydMD]

A number of reporters asked me the same question over and over today.

It was some version of this: Why should doctors and public health professionals care about police violence?

The answer is simple and only takes 3 words.

Police kill people.

[Canadian Doctors for Medicare @CdnDrs4Medicare]

CDM's statement of solidarity in the fight against anti-Black racism. https://t.co/B2Vw8k4yWO

[LaShyra Nolen, MD, MPP @LashNolen]

The environment of academic medicine is suffocating for Black medical students.

We can’t breathe.

“Now is the time for medical institutions to demonstrate our presence means more than brown faces on pamphlets.”

My thoughts here in @medpagetoday.

https://t.co/kmiB7Z3VjH