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International Women’s Day 08.03.2010 “Female Steps in Medicine”
Throughout life women and men contribute every day to society. Both genders are supposed to play different parts to the forthcoming of their society, their family, their career. The last centuries made an extreme change to the traditional gender pictures, but still requirements regarding health and behavior towards risks and risk-taking are different.
In 2010 EMSA will raise awareness to the different roles women play in society and to their requirements regarding career planning, by celebrating the
International Women’s Day on March, 8th.
With your help and your creativity we want to set up an annual event that concerns about women in medicine and women health issues in general. The first International Women’s Day celebrated by EMSA will deal with young female medical students and doctors approaching their career, the lack of University’s support of female students, what goes well and what should be improved at the university in Europe concerning female medical students.
Regarding the chosen topic (“Female Steps in Medicine”) we would like to ask you to put all of your creativity and enthusiasms in the International Women’s Day and organize projects such as lectures or a Movie and Medicine. Invite a female doctor and let her talk about her career or a politician that works with gender policies! Show a movie that deals with female issues and start a discussion after the movie!
Besides the core action on March, 8th, we ask you to distribute a questionnaire to all of your female medical students and pass it back to us by the end of March (deadline 31.03.2010). This questionnaire will be evaluated and the results will be presented at the first issues of the EMSA Medical Ethics Issue in May! We would also ask you to send us your pictures you made at March 8th, 2010 so that we can publish them in the issues as well.
Please fill in the questionnaires (link listed below) or send the filled-in questionnaire by mail so that the answers can be evaluated and be used for a position formed by WG-members, the Director of Medical Ethics and the LO-WHO.
Link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dHFUMFU5WU9ieURvb0xaUElNSk4yNWc6MA
You can find the questionnaire as a Pdf-Form and a document with a short résumé of all the mentioned facts in this message here.
We thank you for your interest and we look forward to your projects held in our university and to your filled- in questionnaires!!!
Europeanly yours,
Constanze Born (Liaison Officer toward the WHO 2009/2010)
Mickuela las van Bennekom (Medical Ethics Director 2009/2010) |
