The Female Doc Show

Today, I wanted to talk a little bit more about academic medicine and what a successful career in academic medicine really looks like.

So, today's guest is Dr. Inga Hoffman and she's had an incredible academic career and she's really enjoyed it. She's very passionate about it and I can't wait to dive a little bit more into all of the positive parts of academic medicine and really what it looks like to build and lead through academic medicine.

So, what is a mentor exactly?

On this week's episode, I'm going to break down mentors for you and dig into what mentorship really is. Last week, we were able to see the power of female mentorship.

This week I'm also going to talk about something called sponsors and sponsorship. That's a term that we typically don't hear in the professional space as often. So I'm going to dive a little bit deeper into what a real sponsor is.

Welcome to The Female Doc show.

Not every woman has to work. Not every woman has to stay at home. There shouldn't be a war between working moms and stay-at-home moms. We should be a sisterhood. In this episode, Dr. Khan talks with Dr. Amber Miller, Dr. Melissa Eseltine Bass, and Dr. Linda Kalamkeryan, female doctors she met during the ICU Surge in California about how much women in healthcare can accomplish when they collaborate in their different roles.

A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine explored the gender roles of career-oriented academic MDs in the workplace juxtaposed with domestic responsibilities. Women in the study were more likely to have partners who worked full-time at a rate of 85.6% compared to men at 44.9%. In this episode, Dr. Khan discusses how household responsibilities can hinder academic career achievement for women!

Men are labeled ambitious. Women are labeled aggressive. Men are labeled leaders. Women are labeled bossy. Men get powerful labels, and women get negative ones. In this episode, Dr. Khan explains how labels often hold back women from asking for what they want or behaving how they in the workplace for fear of not being liked or not being a team player. She discusses how you can help combat this stigma!

In this episode, Dr. Khan describes a perplexing patient case that was originally thought to be a classic heart attack (STEMI). What will the final diagnosis be? How did Dr. Khan solve this mystery case? Listen to find out!

Burnout syndrome is a state of emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. I burned out early. Right out of fellowship, Dr. Khan no longer wanted to be a doctor. The grueling hours, her grumpy co-workers, and distant patient engagements left her totally exhausted. However, over the course of a year, Dr. Khan was able to rediscover her passion for medicine. In this episode, learn the 5 ways Dr. Khan was able to overcome burnout.

In this episode, Dr. Khan answers an audience question on how to manage an amazing career and pair that with creating a family life that you want. Dr. Khan breaks it down into three categories: personal life, family life, and what it means to be a great physician. She shares her insight and personal experience on how to achieve and manage it all!

Dr. Khan dives deep into the hot topic of the differences between a DO and an MD. This is a super common question Dr. Khan gets, especially in the US, as there's a stigma that DOs are not real doctors (which is not true)! In this episode, Dr. Khan busts myths about the osteopathic profession in the United States.