This professional development column focuses on effective time management using a prioritization principle from Stephen R Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. To improve time management and productivity, Covey suggests that you plot all of your pending tasks…
In response to Dr. Martin’s Emergency Medicine News letter to the editor “Parenthood and Medicine, Each in Its Season” One of the things I have learned from being a mom of six kids and a chair of a busy emergency…
This year at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) meeting, Dr Nikita Joshi spoke about gender representation at national Emergency Medicine conferences. Her research team found that women represented less than 30% of all speakers and 24% of all…
Five years ago I completed an emergency medicine residency. Sixteen years prior I completed a residency in OB- Gyn. For obvious reasons I did not do the Ob rotation during my second residency. I did however shadow a few shifts…
Without question, the interconnectivity created by social media is a plus when it comes to talking about physician burnout, suicide and policies affecting our practice of medicine. We are no longer in independent silos with the surgeons suffering in one…
I’m excited to introduce you to an unstoppable movement that I’ve been a part of throughout my residency tenure: #Shemergency. I am incredibly fortunate at my residency program to be surrounded by an abundance of highly successful and all around…
A father and a son are in a car accident. The father dies instantly, and the son is taken to the nearest hospital. The doctor comes in and exclaims, “I can’t operate on this boy!” “Why not?” the nurse asks….
From the editors – We are excited to bring you this piece on managing your finances, something that can be overwhelming and intimidating to many physicians. It is meant to be for general advice and is not a specific endorsement…
By FemInEMs, for FemInEMs
Dara Kass 
Aparna Iyer, MD 
Amber L. Beckenhauer, DO 
Laura Medford-Davis, MD, MS 
Teresa Amato, MD 
Alisha Brown, MD 
Kathleen Kerrigan, MD FACOG 
Bande Virgil, MD 
Amy Waldner, MD 
Anonymous Female Emergency Physician 
Pete Heckman 
Dr. Sara Andrabi 
