How I Made It Through: Navigating Residency & Childrearing

Presented by: Safiya K. Lyn-Lassiter, MD

The goal for this lecture is for the audience to understand the current parental leave policy and how it impacts medical residents. Raise awareness of the physical and emotional effects that women physicians endure by having children at a later age. Offer medical residents effective strategies for navigating difficult conversations surrounding family-planning, pregnancy, parental leave, post-partum & return to work. Suggest feasible interventions designed to reduce discrimination against childbearing physicians.