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AAWEP Section meeting is Sunday, October 29 – 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm!

Congratulations Lea Walters, MD (AAWEP Councilor) on the completion and success of her grant project, "Working in Fours". The project team developed and distributed a survey to identify trends relevant to intergenerational communication. Results were used to research and produce a toolkit for encouraging intergenerational communication specific to women in Emergency Medicine and useful to AAWEP and ACEP leaders interested in proactively addressing generation differences among clinical teams. Download the toolkit (PDF).

Even though we are still making plans to attend the ACEP17 Scientific Assembly - plans for ACEP18 are well under way! Please consider submitting your didadic proposals and share your insights and knowledge with the attendees at ACEP18.

Course proposal information can be found on the ACEP website, and are due November 1, 2017. If you would like it to be AAWEP-supported (any didactic that is being submitted by a member of AAWEP, relates to our section’s mission, and is approved by the Board, please email the AAWEP Didactics Chair Sneha Chinai.

It was a joy to be a part of the 2016 AAWEP Section Meeting, which was as inspiring as it was crowded! Held in October at ACEP’s annual Scientific Assembly in Las Vegas, the gathering attracted more than 130 members – nearly doubling the number of 2015 attendees – and provided a unique opportunity for emergency physicians to connect with each other and discuss issues at the forefront of our specialty. We hope to see you next year at our annual meeting in beautiful Washington, DC! Check out photos from the meeting here.

Hot off the Press! Don’t miss this enlightening study on gender distribution among American medical specialty leaders. Read how EM fared when researchers evaluated the relative representation of women on ABMS boards and compared it with the gender composition of the 25 respective specialties studied. Spoiler alert: 29% of current American Board of Emergency Medicine directors are women, while 27% of EM physicians and 37.4% of EM physicians-in-training are female.

Download the Full Article (PDF)

Also, please stay tuned for more information on the important work being done by ACEP’s Diversity and Inclusion Taskforce. Initiated by President Rebecca Parker, the group is focused on examining the EM landscape to identify barriers to improving diversity on all levels.

How do you envision your future in EM? Would you enjoy a leadership position within ACEP – perhaps serving as a Councilor, a member of the ACEP Board, or on the AAWEP Executive Committee? Position yourself now to be a part of the leadership pipeline, and let AAWEP help you channel your skills and goals into some of the most influential positions in emergency medicine. Build a leadership roadmap and supercharge your future with LeaP! Get started here.

We’re proud to honor this stellar group of annual AAWEP Award winners. Year after year, they continue to inspire us!

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We’re excited to share links to a few of our favorite essays, videos, podcasts, and articles focused on the challenges and rewards of being a woman leader. We hope you enjoy them! Do you have a go-to leadership resource you’d like to share with the section? E-mail it to aawep.section@acep.org.