OWL Articles of Interest

General

• Annette Holian on The Time Out Podcast – Surgical Students' Society of Melbourne

Diversity and Inclusion

• Diversity in healthcare – why are we still talking about it? – AOA

• Fears About #MeToo are No Excuse to Deny Mentorship to Women in Orthopaedic Surgery – Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

• How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients – Harvard Business Review

• Through the looking glass – a glimpse into a career in orthopaedics – Catherine McDougall

• Delivery through diversity – McKinsey & Company

• The Orthopaedic Workforce Is Not as Diverse as the Population It Serves: Where Are the Minorities and the Women? (RACS login required. Alternatively, the article can be accessed through JBJS) – The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

• Changing the norm towards gender equity in surgery: the women in surgery working group of the Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland’s perspective – Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

• #HeForShe: Why it Matters to the Individual (and to Everyone) – Dr Meredith Barrett, Michigan Medicine

• Ten Simple Rules to Achieve Conference Speaker Gender Balance – Prof Jennifer Martin 
• Common Types of Gender-Based Microaggressions in Medicine – Association of American Medical Colleges

Parenthood

• Exposure: Radiation is the 'Invisible Enemy' of Female Orthopaedic Surgeons

• Mountain Climbing, Motherhood, and Surgical Practice – JAMA Surgery

• Occupational Hazards for pregnant or lactating women in the orthopaedic operating room
  NB: The URL allows free access to the abstract only. A PubMed subscription is required to view the full article.

• Pregnancy and Motherhood During Surgical Training – JAMA Surgery
  
  
• Occupational Hazards to the Pregnant Orthopaedic Surgeon (JBJS login required) – The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

• Supporting Working Parents: Pregnancy and Return to Work National Review - Report – Australian Human Rights Commission

• ‘Don’t get pregnant, it will ruin your career’: The unspoken cost of becoming a surgeon – Women's Agenda; Jasmina Kevric

Return to training

• Returning to trauma and orthopaedic training with SuppoRTT (pages 46–48) – British Orthopaedic Association, Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedics

• Inequality, discrimination and regulatory failure in surgical training during pregnancy – Sara Dorman, James Shelton and Danielle Wharton

• Return to work for higher surgical trainees: a deanery perspective – Shirley Chan

Leadership

• As Long as We Associate Leadership with Masculinity, Women Will Be Overlooked – Harvard Business Review

• Kristy L. Weber, MD, named first female president of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons – American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website

• What I love about orthopaedics – AOA OWL members

• Impostor syndrome, the importance of language –BossB MD
  
  
• Impostor Syndrome: How to Identify It, Use It and Overcome It – The Uncommon League 

• Championing Women Orthopaedic Surgeons: Preparing for an Inclusive Future – OrthoEvidence; Ayesha Siddiqua, Mohit Bhandari, Laurie A. Hiemstra and Nancy Hiasat

Bullying and Harassment

• It’s Not Always Clear What Constitutes Sexual Harassment. Use This Tool to Navigate the Gray Areas – Harvard Business Review

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