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Guest Blog: My Pathway to Medicine

The current trend on social media in the world of medicine is #mypathtomedicine. This is an age old...

Guest Blog: Mental Health Awareness Week 2018

The Medical Women’s Federation kicked off Mental Health Awareness week in the afterglow of a magn...

Guest Blog: Edinburgh’s New MWF Student Committee

It has taken 100 years for the Medical Women’s Federation to return home to Edinburgh, the city whe...

Guest Blog: Mentorship, Seeds and Paying It Forward

Although I'm someone who is still relatively early on in their medical career, I can already vouch f...

Guest Blog: Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

MWIA´s president elect, Dr. Clarissa Fabre visited the Hamlin Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa.

I rec...

'Women in Medicine – a Celebration' Exhibition at the RCP

2017-18 is Women in Medicine Year, marking the 100th anniversary of the Medical Women’s Federation...

BBC Woman's Hour Celebrates 100 Years of the MWF

2017 marks the centenary of the Medical Women's Federation. To celebrate, BBC Woman's Hour spoke to...

International Women's Day 2017 - Be Bold For Change

International Women’s Day is especially significant for MWF this year as we celebrate our centena...

Travel Broadens the Mind

Guest Junior Doctor Blog: Starting on the Shop Floor

Dr Karishma Shah

Academic Foundation Doctor in Orthopaedics
Oxford University Clinical Academic Grad...

Dorothy Ward Travel Fund Winner - Travel Journal 2016

In March 2016 Dr Heidi Doughty was awarded the MWF Dorothy Ward International Travel Fund. Based in...

Guest Blog: What I learnt from Medical School - Making Decisions

As students, when we decide to apply to Medical School we have to make an important decision with la...

Conference Review - Medicine at the Margins: Creative Solutions to Healthcare Challenges

The Medical Women’s Federation Spring Conference, 'Medicine at the Margins: Creative Solutions to H...

Junior Doctor Blog - Dr Salma Aslam

Wet Beriberi and Shade

I must be truthful. Ward rounds aren't always my favourite activity. I would...

Blog Post - Dr Clarissa Fabre

One of the UN's Millenium Development Goals was the reduction of maternal mortality, and in many cou...