While I love
#telemedicine
- it opens up a whole new dimension of disparity and inequity 😢A significant percent of folks only have flip phones, with limited minutes and lots of unpaid bills ( leading to rigorous call screening )
#covid19
#lcsm
#BeAware
For all clinicians on atypical career pathways,this for you! 🙏🏽
- non tenured
- switched from private practice to academia
- focus on QI in the VA
Was unsure if I should even apply but this girl just got promoted to Clinical Associate Professor! 😭
#womeninmedicine
#Medtwitter
Proof reading my fellowship LORs today ! Using this amazing resource ⬇️ to catch any unintentional biases in my writing. Highly recommend it ❗️Also proud of the accomplishments of my diverse mentee pool ❤️ Such a privilege to recommend them all🙏🏽 😍
#oncmeded
🚨 To all my female med students, graduate trainees and faculty. Never EVER feel the need to add an apology on emails about getting married, being pregnant, < insert life event> I hate the culture in medicine that has programmed us to feel that way... 🥺
#womeninmedicine
#wimchat
So this just happened !!! Finally done with my master’s capstone presentation 👩🎓 Two amazing years learning ALL about health care
#quality
and
#safety
! ❤️Grateful for this amazing opportunity and journey 🙏🏽
#womeninmedicine
#oncmeded
Taking a moment this Mother’s Day to acknowledge the 🌈 of emotions🙏🏽 Let’s pledge to improve disparities in maternal health, support for women in work place going through infertility and pregnancies and stop judging women who chose to not to be mothers 🤗
Pro tip: Just like carbon dating or the rings on the tree bark, if you want to understand the true culture of a program just study or follow the career trajectories of their mid to senior career female faculty. Incredibly telling! 👀 🚨
#womeninmedicine
#womeninSTEM
Graduated 2015-did not make it to any professional society meetings prior to or after till about 2018 because of young babies ! Having virtual
#ASCO20
is a great equalizer for so many
#Womeninmedicine
( and dads )
#silverlinings
. Hope this option stays 🙏🏽
Major career pivot alert! Midlife is definitely a season of changing priorities (More reflections on that later) Extremely grateful to UAB and VA for helping me grow as a physician leader.
#Onward
@HemOncWomenDocs
#WomeninMedicine
#lcsm
🚨 Had a goal! Improve
#lcsm
care in Alabama!
🤝 Found an amazing mentor and collaborator ✅
🌟 This clinician educator was able to write and get funded a 5 year grant for our veterans with lung cancer! 😭🌟
Thank you for amplifying us!
@uabmedicine
@VABIRMINGHAM
I am an
#IMG
, brown female with no pedigree (family not in medicine ) Heard a lot these elitist and disappointing comments through my entire journey towards residency and beyond. We add value. IMGs in leadership - kindly note and assist!
#medtwitter
Emailed program about IMG criteria for app. They felt the need to say: they rarely interview IMGs. It’s hard for me to understand how programs claim to “Promote a culture of diversity”, when they limit population to a small bubble.🤷🏻♀️ Thanks for being honest I guess?
#medtwitter
This is my Alma mater! Grant Medical College and Sir JJ group of hospitals. Seeing it all lit up on the eve of India’s Republic day makes me nostalgic💕😭
#desitwitter
#FMG
Any GMCite tweeples?
#medtwitter
Good physical exam is a lost art 🚨 This video was making social media rounds and it immediately fired my buried neurons from med school days !! Forever grateful for my
#clincianeducator
attendings who valued this skill 🙏🏽 Any guesses ?
#medtwitter
#meded
Full time physician and raising 2 boys, there were days I was convinced I was crazy to go back to school ! But pursuing a master’s degree is Healthcare quality and safety was the best decision for me. Final stretch as I graduate this summer 🙏🏽 🏆 💪🏾😅
As a junior immigrant minority female interested in growing into an academic leadership track this data is sobering. 🚨As things stand now, I will likely not make it...🤷🏽♀️👩🏽⚕️😓
#hertimeisnow
#womeninmedicine
#wimchat
Thank you
@JulieSilverMD
for your advocacy 🙏🏽
If you have the privilege of being an editor or reviewer - NEVER do this !!! 😢 A lot of us non native English speakers put double the effort on writing ! Non productive feedback 😡
#meded
#medtwitter
#oncmeded
#womeninmedicine
Gratefully, I had an opportunity to peer review an article. I received this today from one of the website’s staff members. This is a problem that we people, with a different ethnicity, see everyday. I consider this an absurd and racist response.
Being an immigrant woman physician of color is not something I take lightly! We are here to stay and thrive 💪🏽
Happy women physicians day to all my female physician friends and role models 😍
#womeninmedicine
#littleEngine
I am officially “zoomed” out... 🤦🏽♀️😭 can’t believe this introvert is saying this but I miss “in person” meetings and the return of true work life balance.... 😖
#medtwitter
#womeninmedicine
🆘 Residents and fellows in training who are starting to interview for jobs. How are “hiring freezes “ delaying/ hindering the process ? Trying gauge the extent of the problem and figuring out how we can help. 😰🤔
#meded
#oncmeded
#medtwitter
You don’t have to be in the same “area of research”, department or even institution (on occasion) to serve as a sponsor or advocate for
#WomeninMedicine
and other URiM. Leaders should reflect on this towards the end of the year and consider doing more of it! Goes a LONG way!
I am retweeting this with an update! Our collaborative proposal to grow a lung cancer cancer program within our VISN was accepted for funding. Can’t wait to bring more screening and trials for our veterans with
#lcsm
😭✨🙏🏽Grateful to all the mentors,collaborators and advisors!
For 2021 I want
🏥Widespread lung cancer screening in Alabama
#lcsm
🔗Better care coordination for patients
🧪More access to clinical trials
💵 Lower drug costs and transparency
💉 Covid vaccine for patients with cancer so they can stay protected💪🏽‼️
Here is the reason I pledged 🙏🏽 As fellow brown skinned people,you would think of South East Asians as natural allies, but our history suggests otherwise ! We need to fight the Casteism and pervasive colorism in addition to racism
#desitwitter
Listen, the thing about mentorship is, that you don’t bail on your mentees if they try to go a different career trajectory, than you envision. They are often terrified, taking a risk and need your support MORE than ever!
#AcademicTwitter
#WomeninMedicine
#Medtwitter
Came to the US as a naive 23 year old.Struggled as a pregnant intern( with no mentor) in a busy residency program.Worked on my “thick accent” to fit better. Still grateful for all the opportunities this country has offered me !
#Happyimmigrantdoctor
.
#Decaderecap
#womeninmedicine
🌎Moved to the US
📚IM residency while 🤰
👶Baby
#1
🩸♋️Hemonc Fellowship while pregnant 🤰
👶Baby
#2
🇺🇸Became a US citizen
🩺Joined an oncology private practice
🧬 🏥Re- entered academics
🎓Degree in Quality and Safety
Happy Ganesh Chaturthi to my tweeples who celebrate ! The concept of lord ganesha’s form is supposed to be all the desirable qualities I would want to emulate. “Listen more, speak less, think big and be adaptable/reliable ” Peace and love to all 🙏🏽
#desitwitter
Do check out our poster and abstract ⬇️ in feasibility of using
@HOJournalClub
as an
#oncmeded
tool for trainees - fostering multi institutional collabaration,learning and networking.Would love your questions and comments 🙏🏽 !
@DrMMurphy
@DocLHenry
#ASCO20
Dr.Unger presents: Root cause of low clinical trial participation is 🥁 not the lack of patient interest - if offered appropriately , all ethnic groups were willing to participate ‼️‼️‼️ Clinical trial enrollment process needs a overhaul‼️‼️‼️
#ASCOQLTY20
#lcsm
#bcsm
#crcsm
#btsm
As an Indian immigrant, I can relate. Have not seen my aging parents and (rest of the family) since 2019 and the fear and helpless of what’s to come is crippling. Praying for some immediate relief to the subcontinent
#CovidInIndia
🙏🏽😔
As someone who is a forever educator at heart, recognition from my trainees is the highest reward indeed.
Thankful to have had the privilege of training several oncologists over the past few years.Great parting gift as I embark on a new journey.
#OncMedEd
#Gratitude
🙏🏽🤗
The irony of clearing out my offices at the end of the calendar year is not lost on me!😂 Change is hard but critical for one’s personal growth. Taking years of valuable experience gained in these roles to my next chapter! 🙏🏽😍
#BitterSweet
#WomeninMedicine
#newyear2024
🥂🎉
How we describe people is important ! Specially
#womeninmedicine
#WIMChat
#womeninSTEM
🚨Always helpful to think twice about it and reframe if possible. Loved this chart and hoping to use it 🙏🏽
As an eternal optimist, this title to my health policy and care delivery oral abstract discussion session, was unnerving. But as a
#meded
champion, I wanted to offer a framework 🙏🏽💪🏾
#ASCO20
#policy
#caredelivery
Today is the first day of Navratri- 9 days of acknowledging the beauty and strength of women in their various roles as the creator, protecter, provider etc!
On the 10th day we celebrate the triumph of good over evil! Wishing all tweeples who celebrate 🪔 👩🏾👩🏽👩🏼👩🏻🙏🏽
#desitwitter
Riddle me this ! Isn’t the ultimate goal of medical research to help serve our patients better ? Since when is wanting to take care of patients or being a clinician considered a “second class” academic job 🙄😒 This messaging needs to 🛑 in
#medtwitter
#academia
#oncmeded
📢
This was a hard week for me as a mentor to see a mentee unexpectedly fail 😢. Here is what I learnt. Trainees:🚨Focus on quality ( not quantity) of projects
Mentors: 🚨 Recognize bandwidth of trainees and give real-time feedback.
#medtwitter
#oncmeded
😡
#USMLEPassFail
! Agree that a lot of the tested content had no bearing on clinical skills, solution was to modify the test curriculum and not the grading! As an immigrant
#FMG
with no pedigree, my scores were my only way into residency 💔
#MedEd
Academia woes 🤦🏽♀️ Doers and writers. I fall in the former category - love doing projects but can’t get my self to write it up and publish. My ideal academic collaborator would be someone who excels at ✍️ !!
#researchmatchup
@HemOncWomenDocs
#womeninmedicine
📲 Announcing the
#ASCO22
Featured Voices! Follow on Twitter and/or Instagram for a range of expert insights and join the conversation using the official hashtag,
#ASCO22
👉
Happy Diwali to all my desi tweeps! Celebrating with Rangoli, 🪔, home made mithai and lots of prayers for a wonderful year filled with light and good health for all 🙏🏽🧨💖🪔
#Diwali2022
#DesiTwitter
#WomeninMedicine
The little 🚂 that could 💪🏽
Never thought this non tenure track clinician would put in a federal grant application 😱 ! It happens when
-Right cause:
#lcsm
care for Alabama veterans
-Rockstar team
-The best
#heforshe
mentor
@realmdransfield
#womeninmedicine
Often labeled as rude,stand offish and not given due credit for their work or sponsorship, It’s hard to be an introvert in a world designed to reward the loudest and the most gregarious personalities (specially for leadership roles)
#MedBookClub
Glad to have found this book! 👏🏽
Here is a clinician educator POV in terms of
#LCSM
abstract interests for
#ASCO2022
-Not an endorsement and no COI. Several others in the poster sessions that I have not yet reviewed. Hoping other Thoracic Oncologists and patient advocates can share theirs too!
#Oncmeded
#Meded
Why is your age and lack of experience held against you in medicine? More so for
#womeninmedicine
Every other industry ( looking at you tech/IT) is revolutionized by fresh ideas and out of the box thinking and creativity 😓 🤔
#medtwitter
#AcademicTwitter
Global events over the past few weeks and personal struggles have been weighing me down! Mentoring and advocacy brings me joy so the
@AMWADoctors
#hertimeisnow
masks arrived at the perfect time to give me a boost and remind me of my goal as a
#womaninmedicine
💪🏽
#genderequity
A multi-institutional collaborative effort,led by
#oncmeded
trainees and supported by medical educators to shine a spotlight on the massive toll this pandemic has taken on trainees lives/education/career!
#meded
#covid19
🚨
A colleague flippantly stated in my presence that only the “not very smart physicians “ choose to be program directors 😳😡This is unfortunately the message delivered in academics far too often.
#clinicianeducators
#oncmeded
@HemOncWomenDocs
#proudAPD
📣 Announcing the
#ASCO23
Featured Voices! 🎉 Follow on Twitter, Instagram and/or LinkedIn for a range of expert insights and join the conversation using the official hashtag:
#ASCO23
👉
My first time moderating/chairing
@ASCO
session!( I almost had no photographic evidence, but thanks to others who captured a few)
Recorded: Care delivery and regulatory policy poster discussion session 🚨🙏🏽
#ASCO22
Haven’t seen my family in over 16 months at this point and the Covid cases are steadily rising again in India but keeping the optimism and hoping for a colorful and healthy spring/ year ahead for all! ✨🌈
#HappyHoli2021
#DesiTwitter
I might be a little biased as the spouse but clearly
@UABIT
feels the same way about
@RajeshPillai_B
Congratulations on being the one of the 20 UAB faculty/ staff receiving the inaugural President’s award for excellence in Shared values! 💕👏🏽
A good mentor will put in tremendous effort and time to improve your work! ( not matter how good it was to begin with ) That document coming back with tons of edits and mark ups is really a sign that they care 😍🙏🏽😅
#meded
#oncmeded
#medtwitter
Best paper I wrote as trainee went through 8 revisions, because a good
#MedEd
mentor cares enough about you to invest time & effort➡️keep revising.
Not-so-good mentors just say "Great job!"& let you find out from reviewers that it actually isn't. Learned that the hard way too.
Signed up both my kids for online instruction only.Hope it’s the right decision but could not risk infecting teachers, office staff, custodians etc and also worry about them bringing it home as a healthcare worker potentially exposing immunosuppressed patients !
#covid19
For trainees! 🚨 Scientific opinions on social media should be always be taken with a grain of salt. We all have biases, COI and unique lenses for interpreting data- so please use critical thinking and avoid blind follower ship!
#oncmeded
#ASCO23
First few years as a new immigrant resident can be be brutal! I almost quit Medicine my intern year. It is likely worse with the ongoing pandemic. Watch out for the new trainees specially the
#IMGs
#ForeignGrads
🙏🏽
#medtwitter
#womeninmedicine
PSA for my Alabama folks ! Please don’t be falsely reassured by “ lack of cases” so far. It just means we have not tested enough.We have the opportunity to play a big part in
#flatenningthecurve
. Cancel any events/ field trips etc that are non essential 🙏🏽🙏🏽
A conversation today reminded me of this😢 It is not enough to just hire diversely but it’s also important to retain and help people thrive. A lot of institutions are failing and thus the leaky pipeline
#DEI
Thoughts?
#womeninmedicine
💭
Had a zoom sesh with my girlfriends and it came up that while my
@Disney
avatar should be Jasmine, I am really a Moana because if something is “too hard” or “forbidden”, I tend to pursue it.. 🤔 can’t argue with that 💪🏽☺️🤷🏽♀️
#womeninmedicine
“Women supporting other women!”Great session with a powerhouse team of
@HemOncWomenDocs
leaders
@ASCO
#ASCO22
🚨Come join at the Women’s Networking Session