The VMWS Marvellous Medical Women Project is now underway. Medical Students from Melbourne and Monash University are interviewing Medical Women from the VMWS about their lives as doctors.

So far four interviews have been completed and the recorded interview transcribed. Once the participants have reviewed their interviews we will be publishing a summary of their stories to celebrate the achievements of women doctors in our newsletter.

More detailed data analysis will be done over the next two years. The qualitative analysis would make a great AMS project for a Melbourne University student or BMedSci project for a Monash student.

Medical students interested in being interviewers or doing formal project work should contact Dr Jan Coles. We would like to have student interviewers involved from each University.

Let’s celebrate the achievements of medical women and the students who have been conducting the interviews!

With best wishes
Jan Coles and Jillian Tomlinson