Rainbow Women MD

26/07/2020

Its time people realise we are human first and foremost.

We support you. All of you. You're amazing women physicans and guess what?!?! OMG you wear bikinis. 😱 Does it change how amazing you are as a person and doctor?! NO. It's time to throw out the unwritten rules of being a woman in medicine
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Thank you to everyone who has posted. We couldn't possibly tag everyone, but you all are an AMAZING group

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23/06/2020

Women can face a lot when building towards success.

One of the biggest unseen hurdles women face are: BIAS.
Some of these biases include:
-unconscious bias
-perfomance bias
-Attribution bias
-likeability bias
-double discrimination
-affinity bias
-maternal bias

and so on..
(definitions available on instagram page)

How many of these biases do you think affect women in healthcare?
Especially in male dominated environments?

Comment below!

21/06/2020

💥NEW POST ALERT! 💥
You've heard of Amboss. See its ads. Heard of its Scholarships.

So here are some features of Amboss that you may not know about, but can help with studying!

Learn how to use Amboss for your Success!

https://rainbowwomenmd.com/amboss-for-success/

20/06/2020

💥NEW x3 POSTS ALERT! 💥

In the last week, RWMD has been working super hard to change a lot on the website and add more useful topics for you!

There are new pages up! Such as:

Building towards Success:
https://rainbowwomenmd.com/building-towards-success/

Which means: there are new posts too!

TED Talks every medical student should see:
https://rainbowwomenmd.com/ted-talks-every-medical-student-should-see/

The Four A's of surgery (for student-resident):
https://rainbowwomenmd.com/the-four-as-of-surgery/

How we might be dealing with Race wrong:
https://rainbowwomenmd.com/wrong-way-to-deal-with-race/

The four A's of surgery are: accountibilty, availability, affability and ability. Learn more about how to behave as a surgical student- resident!

20/06/2020

This is so sad and shameful.

Wed pochodzi z Arabii Saudyjskiej i przyjechała tutaj studiować medycynę.

11/06/2020

A new campaign launches to reach Black women and their squads to help them protect their hearts through monitoring and managing blood pressure.

10/06/2020

Medicine needs to change and the voice to guide it has to come from the people.

A lot of BIPOC population feels unheard by the medical community.

Let's change that.

Comment how you'd like to see medicine change and accommodate BIPOC better!

The first step to bridge the mistrust is to address the wrong done.

04/06/2020

I've never understood what is so hard about understanding racism.
If you treat someone differently because of the color of their skin color, the language they speak or where they are from - that is your own bias and discrimination.

As long as we see people that are different from us as "them" and think of issues and problems as "their problems", we will never be able to fully see the roll we play by staying silent, let alone participation in discrimination and oppression.

I won't say more, since I'm not an expert in this topic. But for those who want to help and learn as I am, here are a few link that you can use to help.

Support George Floyd's family:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

Support Black Lives Matter Movement:
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019

Support Black-led, Q***r and Trans centering organization:
https://secure.everyaction.com/4omQDAR0oUiUagTu0EG-Ig2

Support journalists on the frontline:
https://unicornriot.ninja/donate/

Support the Petitions that ask for Justice for George Floyd:
https://www.change.org/p/mayor-jacob-frey-justice-for-george-floyd

https://www.change.org/p/michael-o-freeman-hennepin-county-attorney-arrest-the-three-other-officers-involved-in-the-death-of-george-floyd?recruiter=1101256679&recruited_by_id=996cbde0-a3da-11ea-ba94-250468561d76

https://naacp.org/campaigns/we-are-done-dying/

https://www.wecantbreathenational.org

Learn how to be a better ally:
https://ideas.ted.com/how-you-can-be-an-ally-in-the-fight-for-racial-justice/?utm_term=global-social+issues&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=social&utm_content=ideas-blog&utm_medium=referral&fbclid=IwAR2siTOduC5ziV3w3ZRcixitKtzFccA3DgWCIzqoy5V4GQfmQ8uOSZU2BpQ

A reading list: https://www.charisbooksandmore.com/understanding-and-dismantling-racism-booklist-white-readers

Netflix suggestions:
“Mudbound”
“Becoming”
“Teach Us All”

On Amazon Prime:
“Just Mercy”
“I Am Not Your Negro”
“The Hate You Give”

Its not a matter of Politics. It's a matter of basic humanity.
Even if we don nothing else - we can still point out the racism we encounter in our own community. For example, if you see a Doctor treat a patient/colleague differently, not take them seriously or insert their own bias into the narrative, then point it out. In the research post for last week, I looked at how the language we use can set the precedence of how we treat our patients.

Change has to start with us.

03/06/2020

NEW POST ALERT 💕
The third article is up on our website! Wohoo!

It is the third article in the "-versus WUM" series, where different e-learning platforms are being measured against university education.
(https://rainbowwomenmd.com/services/vs-wum-series/)

This article
🥳 https://rainbowwomenmd.com/osmosis-vs-wum/ 🥳
is a comparison of osmosis Medical and the education provided by Warsaw University of Medicine, from the perspectives of a 5th year medical student.
I hope you find it useful!

Osmosis is a web- and mobile- based learning platform that uses evidence-based learning science principles to drive health and medical students’ knowledge retention. If you’ve seen any of their videos on youtube, then you’ve seen their claims to take information from many different sources and...

31/05/2020

Does Sunday night still count as "weekend"? 😅

But even it a little late, as promised, here is the student member profile Rainbow Women MD did on Dipika Sheemar! WUM's 5th year student who worked in a COVID ward in Norway during this pandemic:

https://rainbowwomenmd.com/projects/a-student-like-us-during-covid/

Hope you guys like it!

Comment below your own experiences during this pandemic!

If you'd like to share your story with the community, feel free to message us 💕

A medical student. during covid Facebook Envelope Instagram Say, you were a med-student during the pandemic of 2020, and you had a chance to make a difference.  Would you take it? Dipika Sheemar, a fifth year student of our own Warsaw University of Medicine, is of many who did. She sought out and...

29/05/2020

Women are women's biggest strength!

So, lets get to know each other!

There are some issues men just don't have to think or worry about encountering. Some topics that women feel more at ease when talking to about, with another women.

SO! Let's start a chain of communication!

Comment below one kind of person you'd like to get to know, ask a question or just be able to call a friend!

If you can't think of one, then comment below who you are, where you're from and where you are in your medical journey!

You never know, maybe the person you're looking for is staring at this very post!

26/05/2020

NEW POST ALERT