Confidence is a subjective, emotional state of mind. It is about being comfortable in your own skin, and reassured enough to act. It comes from the balance of believing in yourself, mastering your fears, and understanding what you want, and then what you’re prepared to do to get it.
Women comprise over 50% of medical graduates but they remain under-represented in senior leadership positions in academic medicine, practice settings, and professional medical organisations1. The reasons for this are unclear but the need for opportunities to improve leadership capability among medical women is clear. Without these opportunities the profession will deprive itself both of the diversity of the work styles and values that women bring to the profession, as well as much of the capable pool of candidates to effectively fill such important positions2.
The fundamental skill of setting a goal is an open secret known by top-caliber athletes, successful businessmen and businesswomen and all the top achievers in every different field. Setting effective goals gives you short-term and long-term motivation and focus. Goals help you focus on the acquisition of any required knowledge and they help you to plan and organize your resources and your time so that you can get the best out of your life.
This presentation from Professor Deborah Saltman is an invaluable resource for any medical woman
To read this excellent and highly recommended guide from the
To read this excellent article from the American Medical Women’s Association
Harvard University’s Open Collections Program have featured a section on
“Politics is more difficult than physics.” –Albert EinsteinNo matter how
You probably do more writing as a physician/ researcher than you thought you would ever do when you took that pesky freshman composition class. As you now know, the process of writing requires great attention to detail whether you are writing an interoffice memo or a research article. It is true that the beginning of a good journal article is good science with rigorous methods, but the science will not be conveyed to the research community or the general public without clear writing.
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