Gender equity: Podcasts & online lectures

The AMA Moving Medicine podcast from the American Medical Association (AMA), has many episodes devoted to women in medicine and the challenges they face, as well as gender equity in general. The podcast aims to help physicians stay in the loop on innovations and emerging issues impacting physicians and public health today. You can access all AMA podcasts at ama-assn.org/podcasts

Episode highlights:

Hosts Dr Raj Gupta and Dr Eric Schwenk address hot topics in regional anaesthesia and pain medicine, featuring guests from the ASRA community.

The CPSolvers Women in Diagnosis Series (WDx), led by Dr. Sharmin Shekarchian, Dr. Emma Levine, and Dr. Lindsey Shipley, aims to promote, celebrate and elevate women in diagnostic reasoning. Their goal is to create a space for women of all training levels to learn from mentors and “nerd-out” about clinical reasoning. They discuss issues related to barriers, access, and opportunities by sharing the skills and stories of women navigating careers in medicine.

Episodes feature women from the CPSolvers team and guest experts discussing topics such as the intersection of gender and race in medicine and solving clinical unknowns.

Dr. Nance Goldstein, is a certified leadership coach and trainer, and her podcast "Finding me in medicine again" has episodes featuring experienced female physicians, who discuss the ways they managed their medical practices and found time for their families and for themselves. The podcast is aimed at early career women physicians, to help them explore how to solve difficult yet common challenges.

Below are some MJA podcasts related to Gender Equity in the medical field

Listen to this audio interview with Dr Esther Choo, which highlights steps medical institutions can take to support and empower women.

Listen to this audio interview with Dr Loren Rabinowitz on the hurdles and frustration that female medical trainees face in a sexist culture.

The University of Oxford has a number of interesting podcasts on different topics relating to Women in Science, some relevant and interesting podcasts are linked in the list below:

The goal of this program is to improve representation of women in cardiology clinical trials.

After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to promote discussion of adolescent relationship abuse with young adults and
direct adolescents with experiences of relationship abuse to local resources.

This program aims to promote equity between women and men in anesthesiology by recognising the benefits of women in healthcare. This program also looks at implementing strategies that support the progression of women in anesthesiology.

After hearing and assimilating this program, the clinician will be better able to implement solutions to disparities between men and women in academic medicine.

This program aims to improve management of aortic disease in women and how to cite differences in aneurysm between women and men.

The goal of this program is to improve health care for patients in sexual and gender minority populations.

This program aims to improve preoperative assessment of transgendered patients.