It is cool to be in a field, and a field in medicine in particular, that has achieved balanced gender representation. For quite a while now, 50% or more entrants into family medicine have been women. Over time, the field itself will be at (or more than) 50% women. By 2016, 45% of all family physicians in Canada were women (CIHI data).
This is truly awesome! I have learned so much from my women colleagues and teachers, and it's simply cool to be in a field where we've reached balance for new entrants and soon for the profession as a whole.
From my first year of medical school training to now 21 years a family doc, I can think easily of the great women family docs who have taught and still teach me so much: Drs. Irma Verster, Karunanity, Kelly Regan, Anne Bodkin, Anne Spence, Cathy Peckan, Wendy Tink, Martina Kelly, Behi Raissi, Maeve O'Beirne, and, my decade-long direct clinical partner, Dr. Sonya Lee.
I love family medicine.
This is truly awesome! I have learned so much from my women colleagues and teachers, and it's simply cool to be in a field where we've reached balance for new entrants and soon for the profession as a whole.
From my first year of medical school training to now 21 years a family doc, I can think easily of the great women family docs who have taught and still teach me so much: Drs. Irma Verster, Karunanity, Kelly Regan, Anne Bodkin, Anne Spence, Cathy Peckan, Wendy Tink, Martina Kelly, Behi Raissi, Maeve O'Beirne, and, my decade-long direct clinical partner, Dr. Sonya Lee.
I love family medicine.
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