FemInEM, in partnership with Medelita, has created our first awards recognizing outstanding female residents in emergency medicine: The Right Fit HIPster Awards. Inspired by Medelita’s H.I.P. (Honoring Inspiring Professionals) program, we sought applications from female emergency medicine residents. We asked potential HIPster awardees…
Celebrating Women in Emergency Medicine This fall, there are several events to celebrate and support women in emergency medicine and Envision Physician Services is excited to play a part. In October, EVPS will serve as the exclusive sponsor of the…
A curated collection of excellent talks by Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD and Teresa Chan, MD There are countless fantastic TED Talks out there, making it easy to dive down a rabbit hole watching one great one after another. We have compiled…
I am sharing this account of a serious medical emergency on a transoceanic flight because I hope it helps other health care providers assist people in the future and learn from the difficulties I encountered. About 8 1/2 hours into…
Editor’s Note: The recent commentary in ACEPNow on women in EM prompted Dr. Yafai to pen her thoughts. To all those ER physicians who are angry with “supporting” your female colleague who is pregnant or otherwise woman-ly disabled, The thing…
When I found out my daughter was allergic to peanuts, she was a year old. She couldn’t have cared less. She was smiling and happy, sitting on my lap in the allergist’s office, blissfully unaware of the big red mark on…
Engaging patients in matters of their health and health care is important to me, but I never considered that I might have a special advantage in this area. Then one day, perusing abstracts in a recent issue of Academic Emergency…
The line really should read “Don’t judge me sis,” but the famous line from the last decade was not “Don’t taze me sis,” so there you go. Men are often very judgmental of female physicians who choose nontraditional paths to manage…
By FemInEMs, for FemInEMs
Meeta Shah, MD 
Roozehra Khan, DO 
Nupur Garg, MD 
Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD 
Teresa Chan, MD 
Janelle Evans, MS, MD 
Sherry Yafai. MD 
Kristen Maguire, MD 
Erika Newton, MD MPH 
Mari Siegel 
Dr. Rachel Zang