Dr Charlotte Alexander is a resident working at the Gold Coast University Hospital in Queensland Australia. She completed her medical school at Bond University in 2016, where she was awarded most outstanding medical student in Emergency Medicine. She is a member of the Medical Education Committee, and represents the Gold Coast Hospital at the Junior Medical Officers Forum Queensland. She has made several educational videos, now used as recommended resources for Bond University medical students, and has worked with the Gold Coast Simulation Team in multiple in situ simulations. At FIX17, she and fellow Australian Dr Jess Ng, spoke on the power of mentorship and how we can improve the mentee-mentor relationship.
Looking up: Women, Courage and Mentorship
It was the beginning of the year, many months before the FIX17 conference, when a mentor of ours emailed to encourage us to apply to speak at this inaugural FemInEM conference. New York was half a world away, and the…