Women in IR Section

Career and Career Challenges

In addition to the resources and articles listed here, WIR members have access to resources available throughout the SIR website and on SIR Connect.

The Price Women Leaders Pay for Assertiveness—and How to Minimize It (article sourced from The Wall Street Journal)
Dr. Paid Less: An Old Title Still Fits Female Physicians (article from The New York Times)
Opportunities for Women - Unique Challenges For Women In Medicine (article from State University website)
10 Powerful Career Strategies for Women: Advance Your Career Increase Your Pay (article by Katharine Hansen Ph.D. on LiveCareer)
Career Navigator and Salary Map (online resource)
Ambitchous (book by Debra Condren)
Unconscious Bias in Medicine (Stanford Center for Continuing Medical Education)
Creating a Level Playing Field (Center for Advancement for Women's Leadership)
The Female Threat (Anna-Maria Belli and Meridith Englander)
The Interventional Radiology (IR) Gender Gap: A Prospective Online Survey by Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society in Europe (Min Wah and Anna Maria Belli)
Women's Challenges in IR: #ILookLikeAnIR (Amy R. Deipolyi, MD, PhD, Anne M. Covey, MD, FSIR, Lynn A. Brody, MD, FSIR, Yolanda C.D. Bryce, MD, Duan Li, MD, Karen T. Brown, MD, FSIR)
Women in Interventional Radiology: How are we Doing? (Meridith Englander and Susan O'Horo)
Women in Medicine and Patient Outcomes (article)
Contract Negotiation (webinar)
Women's efforts to gain status in surgery (article)
Addressing physician burnout (article)

Work-life Balance

168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think (book)
Top 10 Tips for Balancing Work and Family Life (article from mom md)
Books on Balancing a Career, Motherhood and a Family (feature from mom md)

Pregnancy in IR

Factors Associated With Residency and Career Dissatisfaction in Childbearing Surgical Residents (Erika L. Rangel, MD, MS; Heather Lyu, MD; Adil H. Haider,MD, MPH; Manuel Castillo-Angeles, MD, MPH; Gerard M. Doherty, MD; Douglas S. Smink, MD, MPH)
Impact of Pregnancy and Gender on Internal Medicine Resident Evaluations: A Retrospective Cohort Study (Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH, and Amy S. Oxentenko, MD)
Baby on Board: Managing Occupational Radiation Exposure During Pregnancy (M. VictoriaMarx,MD,FSIR)
Monitoring of fetal radiation exposure during pregnancy (Venita Chandra, MD, Chelsea Dorsey, MD, Amy B. Reed, MD, Palma Shaw, MD, Dawn Banghart, BS, and Wei Zhou, MD)
Occupational Radiation Protection of Pregnant or Potentially Pregnant Workers in IR: A Joint Guideline of the Societyof Interventional Radiology and the Cardiovascular andInterventional Radiological Society of Europe (Lawrence T.Dauer,PhD,DonaldL.Miller,MD,BethSchueler,PhD,JamesSilberzweig,MD,Stephen Balter,PhD,GabrielBartal,MD,CharlesChambers,MD,JeremyD.Collins,MD,John Damilakis,PhD,RobertG.Dixon,MD,M.VictoriaMarx,MD,MichaelS.Stecker,MD,Eliseo Vañó,PhD,AradhanaM.Venkatesan,MD,andBorisNikolic,MD,MBA)
Parental leave policies in graduate medical education: A systematic review (Laura S. Humphries, Sarah Lyon, Rebecca Garza, Daniel R. Butz, Benjamin Lemelman,Julie E. Park)
Society of Interventional Radiology Position Statement on Parental Leave (Meridith J. Englander, MD, Christine E. Ghatan, MD, Barbara Nickel Hamilton, MD, Shellie C. Josephs, MD, Kari J. Nelson, MD, and Laura E. Traube, MD, MPH)
Occupational Radiation Exposure during Pregnancy (article)

Financial

Why Women Lose at the Negotiating Table (article Emergency Physicians Monthly)
White Coat Investor Blog
Mr. Money Mustache Blog
The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing (book by Benjamin Graham)
The Financially Intelligent Physician: What They Didn't Teach You in Medical School (book by David J. Norris MD, MBA)

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