Challenges for Women in Family Medicine: Making a difference around the world!

What is happening for women family physicians around the world? This symposium will review, on a regional basis, what women family physicians are doing to confront the challenges we face in education, clinical practice, academia, organizations, and leadership.

Moderator: Lucy M. Candib, M.D.,
Family Physician, Family Health Center of Worcester and Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, University of Massachusetts Medical, Steering Committee Member of WWPWFM

1. Canada: Women Family Physicians in Canada Effecting Change
   Barbara Lent and Cheryl Levitt
2. UK: Recruitment and retention strategies being developed in the NHS: flexible employment opportunties and family friendly policies in response to the feminisation of the medical workforce.
   Amanda Howe
3. AUSTRALIA: Women in rural general practice - A force for change from the bush to initiatives in gender education in medical schools
   Amanda Barnard
4. USA: Setting up a family-friendly practice: day care in the office
   Barb Doty
5. USA: Learning about new reproductive options and confronting the resistance and opposition
   Linda Prine
6. USA: Shared residency positions
   JoDean Nicolette
7. SOUTH AFRICA: Advancing the cause of women family doctors in a "besieged" medical profession
   Marietjie De Villiers
8. EUROPE: Women and leadership in Family Medicine in Nine European countries 2004,a qualitative study
   Gabie de Jong
9. LATIN AMERICA: Facing the old role models: The challenge for women family physicians in Latin America
   Liliana Arias
10. ASIA: Women's Reproductive Healthcare in Asia Pacific
    Zorayda Leopando