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A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Four

This post is the final post of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. You can find my thoughts from the first half of day one here3, the latter half of day one here4, and the first half of day two here5.

Speaker self-nomination is open for #FIX19 NOW – take the plunge,…

So Unsexy – Why We Shouldn’t Use The Word Sexy in Clinical Medicine #FIX18

The following post is a transcript of my talk at #FIX18 in New York.

You can listen to the podcast of the talk here https://feminem.org/podcast/so-unsexy/

You can watch a video of the presentation here https://feminem.org/2018/11/12/so-unsexy/

I remember joining twitter very clearly. It was July 2012, and I was diving into the unknown – it felt like the start of a new relationship. There was…

A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part Two

This post is the second of four covering my learning points and reflections from #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM2 ideas exchange – took place in New York on Weds 17th and Thurs 18th October 2018. You can find my thoughts from the first half of day one here3.

Jennifer Walthall4 told her story of addressing health inequalities and recognising social determinants of health with the following quote; “the…

A FeminEM in NYC – Reflections from #FIX18 Part One

Last week I travelled from Manchester (for St Emlyn’s Live and Teaching Manchester) to NYC for #FIX181. FIX – the FemInEM1ideas exchange – is in its second year, and having been unable to attend the inaugural conference in 2017 I was determined to make it in 2018. I was lucky enough to be selected to speak (and ultimately spoke on a totally different topic from the one I originally pitched – more…