We accept that knowledge translation is critical to the practice of emergency medicine, yet when it comes to the practice of BEING an emergency physician, we do not always practice evidence based medicine. Once we realized that the experiences of many female emergency physicians were similar but not shared, we felt the need to create an open access resource to address that issue. FemInEM was born out of the real but unfortunate truth that the gender pay gap is alive and well and promotion of women through the academic pipeline is slow. Malignant behavior runs rampant within medical training and women experience unconscious bias at all levels of development. In addition, numerous studies have shown that women carry more of the “care-based” workload, regardless of employment status, compounding the work-life conflict felt by all working professionals. We will share the journey of how FemInEM began as a blog, but evolved quickly into a centralized resource for women needing advocates and champions. We will tell stories of how we are helping to change the conversation related to gender and equity in EM by highlighting the successful practices and programs supporting gender equity in an open access format. By using the principles of FOAM and the power of social media, we are trying to move the needle on gender and medicine in a way that hasn’t been done before.

1. The
Story
Dara Kass, MD
Stacey Poznanski, DO, MEd
Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD

3. Why?

4. A Call to Action

8. The Phone Rings…

12. 64%

13. Female Physician Pipeline

14. Female Physician Pipeline
47%

15. Female Physician Pipeline
47% 46%

16. Female Physician Pipeline
47% 46% 38%

17. Female Physician Pipeline
47% 46% 38%
21%

18. Female Physician Pipeline
47% 46% 38%
21% 16%

22. Resistance
or
No Response
At
Every Level

23. “When I see something that can
make a difference between life
and death, yet it is ignored,
I must distance myself from that
system.
Complicity kills and I will not be
party to that behavior.”

24. Connect

25. Listen Up

27. @FTeranmd @emcrit looks great but what’s the
story in the USA no women? Don’t you guys
resuscitate the female sex?
#unconsciousbiassucks

28. Speak and
Be Heard

31. Promoting
Each Other

33. Advance

36. Learning to
Let It Go

38. Advocate

39. Dear
FemInEM…

40. Why?

41. 0
15
30
45
60
Doctors Gender

42. 0
15
30
45
60
Pediatric ED

43. 0
25
50
75
100
Critical Care

44. Resistance
or
No Response
At
Every Level

46. Support

47. @feminemtweets