Gender Equity in Medicine-what is it and why does it matter?
In this cross over chat between Medical Mums and Coda, Dr Chris Bowles & A/Prof Nada Hamad discuss Gender Equity in Medicine – What is it & Why Does it Matter?
Chris and Nada take a deep dive into gender equity in medicine. Including the impact of the pandemic and the possible solutions.
First, they discuss the difference between gender equity and equality. Equality is the act of treating everyone the same. Whereas equity, focuses on levelling the playing field so that there is more representation and participation. This includes asking questions such as why inequity exists? And why aren’t women progressing?
Evidently, women experience gender inequity at different times of their career. It may be after they’ve had children, or it may be when they want to step up and take on leadership roles.
What is most obvious however, is that the impact of gender inequity in medicine extends far past the individual. Gender inequity impacts how we look after female patients, what kind of questions we ask in research and how we perform and apply that research in the context of women’s healthcare.
Chris and Nada discuss what needs to happen to make the system more accommodating.
This includes implicit bias training, intersectionality training and leadership training. Investment in leadership skills and training is crucial. We can have all of the right policies in place, however, if leadership doesn’t set the standard to encourage uptake, inequity will always exist.
Join Emergency & Trauma physician, Dr Chris Bowles and Haematologist, A/Prof Nada Hamad, as they discuss gender inequity in medicine. They inspire us to identify and challenge the inequity that exists today.
19 Oct 2021
Ask a medical mum ep. 1- Heavy Menstrual Bleeding with Dr Talat Uppal
In this episode Dr Bek Ledingham chats to Dr Talat Uppal about Heavy menstrual bleeding in a peri-menopausal woman. We recorded it on World Menopause day we aim to share up to date information about managing this common problem that often does not get the attention it deserves.
Key take home messages-
1) Initiate treatment of symptomatic women at the first visit
2) Order pelvic ultrasound day 5-10 of cycle
3) Mirena is the most effective management option
4) Uterus sparing surgical procedures are preferred to hysterectomy.
References mentioned during the show
https://www.safetyandquality.gov.au/publications-and-resources/resource-library/heavy-menstrual-bleeding-clinical-care-standard-2017
https://www.jeanhailes.org.au/health-a-z/menopause?gclid=Cj0KCQjwtrSLBhCLARIsACh6RmgRy9D2b18efnY6i4-2CiA4us-55aTwNLLQXUBegh9VJuwDn6gPGfwaAkbvEALw_wcB
https://ranzcog.edu.au/womens-health/patient-information-resources/heavy-menstrual-bleeding
https://www.rcog.org.uk/globalassets/documents/patients/patient-information-leaflets/recovering-well/endometrial-ablation-for-print.pdf
http://oxfordstmedical.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Mirena-Information-Booklet.pdf
https://ranzcog.edu.au/RANZCOG_SITE/media/RANZCOG-MEDIA/Women%27s%20Health/Patient%20information/Hysterectomy-pamphlet.pdf?ext=.pdf
http://www.cincyobgyn.com/webdocuments/novasure-brochure.pdf
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Dr Talat Uppal is an Obstetrician & Gynaecologist who currently works both at the Northern Beaches and Hornsby Ku-ring-gai Hospitals as a Visiting Medical Officer.
She is the Director of Women’s Health Road, and has set up an innovative integrated multidisciplinary ‘Journey’ model with a strong family centred approach to maternity care.
www.womenshealthroad.com.au
She is also a Clinical Senior lecturer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Northern Medical School, University of Sydney.
Her previous, decade long role was based at Manly and Mona Vale Hospitals, as a Senior Obstetrics Staff Specialist and Clinical Director of Women’s, Children & Family health.
She is the past Chair of both the NSW State Reference Committee and NSW RANZCOG Education Subcommittee
She is a Fellow of the Australian Association for Quality in Health Care as well as a Fellow of the Australasian College of Health Service Management
She is the ex joint co-ordinator of Diploma (DRANZCOG) OSCE examination as her special interest is supporting the role of General Practitioners in the Women’s health context.
She is an RANZCOG media spokesperson.
She is fluent in 3 languages and has much overseas exposure with volunteer teaching work.
7 Oct 2021
What we're watching episode 6
Bec and Bek are back We also have a guest host to kick us off today. None other than Bek L's podcast inspiration- her daughter Lucy!
We chat about Cinderella (movie)- Prime
Coda (movie) - Apple TV
Solos (series) - Prime
Vigil - Binge
On the Verge (series) - Netflix
Creamerie - SBS on demand
Quick mentions
Chefs kiss once again to Michael Lucas as series one of The Newsreader (ABC I-view) wraps up. We're hoping for season 2. Also- well done to the RFDS team! (Channel 7)
Sex Education (Netflix) season 3 is here! YAY!
Ted Lasso (Apple TV) season 2 is here.
Morning Wars (Apple TV) season 2 is here.
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