{"id":21914,"date":"2019-11-09T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/?p=21914"},"modified":"2019-11-09T12:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T17:17:19","slug":"reflections-of-a-fix-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feminem.org\/2019\/11\/09\/reflections-of-a-fix-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections of a FIX Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
I was a third year medical\nstudent sitting in what seemed like the 20th<\/sup> hour of OBGYN lectures\nwhen I received an email from my EM clerkship director. The subject line was\n\u201cCool Student Opportunity in EM\u201d. She\nraved about this conference called FemInEM Idea Exchange. I did some research\nand from what I saw on the FIX18 website, the medical student ambassador\nprogram looked like a cool student opportunity indeed. The difficult part was\nthat applications were due that same day. But in good old EM fashion, I didn\u2019t\nstop to eat, pee, or sleep until my application was submitted. To my surprise,\nI was accepted a few months later along with two other classmates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n As a fourth year medical student, FIX18 couldn\u2019t have happened during a better time. I had just submitted my ERAS application and interview invitations were slowly beginning to trickle into my email inbox. I was anxious 24\/7 and imposter syndrome was kicking in. What separated me from the thousands of applicants applying for the same spot? Was I going to match into a residency program? Was I cut out for this? These thoughts persisted up until FIX18 when I was suddenly surrounded by hundreds of female EM physicians. I met students, residents, and attending physicians from various backgrounds with different stories to tell. After each conversation and every FIX talk, I learned that these women I aspired to be one day all had battled and overcome similar doubts and challenges. I left the conference feeling empowered and recharged with a newfound confidence in myself. But most importantly, I was no longer a lonely otter floating in the EM world by myself. I was now part of this enormous raft of emergency medicine bitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n