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    “Shortages”

    12 April 2022
    Kellie Stecher MD
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    Categories: Opinion

    Let’s talk about the doctor shortage…. Changing the training isn’t going to help.

    1. We need a culture of safety and support. Moral injury is a real thing, and causing people to leave.
    2. There shouldn’t be medical school debt. The studies show predominantly affluent people go to medical school. Why? I still have debt. People who don’t have family support will be in debt for decades. We won’t get a diversity of opinions. We will continue to protect the status quo
    3. It shouldn’t be a financial hardship to even apply to medical school or residency. I took separate loans out in order to fly around the country interviewing
    4. Medical schools, like University of MN, could afford to make medical school free, but they don’t. This would allow the top performers to be selected.
    5. There should be more residency spots opened up. Every year we have thousands of American medical graduates go unmatched. Meaning, we have MDs that can’t get into training programs.
    6. Culture of silence and abuse.
    7. We refuse to be innovative, or recruit people that may change the status quo.
    8. The leadership makeup. No one wants to go into an industry where they won’t be taken seriously, or have a chance at moving forward in their career. 12 percent of healthcare CEOs are women. Women don’t even makeup the leadership roles in Women’s health. This is going to get worse post pandemic and with the advent of more private equity involvement and for profit healthcare. Only 2 percent of VCs are women.

    ….. changing how we “train” medical students is not a solution. We have systemic issues. We refuse to look at the racism and sexism that is rampant in healthcare. This training plan is putting a bandaid on a hemorrhage. Until we actually care about what’s causing: burnout, depression, physician and nurse suicide, and people to leave healthcare, we won’t solve anything.

    #nuse#physician#access#healthcare

    Hera the Light of Women Podcast

    12 April 2022
    Kellie Stecher MD
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    Categories: podcasts

    Laleh Hancock, Hera Board Advisor and Host, speaks with Kellie Stecher, OBGYN and Co-Founder & President of Patient Care Heroes, about women’s health, mental health and truly listening to patients, so they are heard! Kellie says, “Be the best version of you to heal”. Kellie Stecher is an OBGYN and Co-Founder and President of Patient Care Heroes, as well as the Governor of the 7th district of the American Medical Women’s Association, and advisor to multiple other companies focusing on patient and staff safety, and mental health She has won the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine’s Top Doctors’ Rising Star award for the last three years. She was recently runner up for The Sharp Index: Physician Well-being Leader of the Year. She also won a silver Anthem Award. Her work has made her an invaluable contributor to both local and national publications, news, and podcasts. Her focus is on advocacy and policy change, centering around safety and equity. She is the author of the book, “Delivering”, which is out now. The book is meant to empower women, mothers, working women, women in healthcare, and to inspire change. Link

    Beyond the Paper Gown Podcast

    5 April 2022
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    Categories: podcasts

    Women have borne the brunt of the COVID 19 pandemic, and no where is that more evident than in health care.  In today’s episode, we speak with Kellie Stecher, MD, an OBGYN and advocate for healthcare workers and for women’s equity.  She’s the author of Delivering in which she records her journey through high school, medical training and clinical practice, marriage and motherhood.  Join us in this candid conversation about mental health, power politics and gender bias in the workplace,  and how women can take action to help themselves, no matter what their profession. Kellie Stecher is an  OBGYN and Co-Founder and President of Patient Care Heroes, as well as the Governor of the 7th district of the American Medical Women’s Association, and advisor to multiple other companies focusing on patient and staff safety, and mental health She has won the Minneapolis/St. Paul Magazine’s Top Doctors’ Rising Star award for the last three years. She was recently runner up for The Sharp Index: Physician Well-being Leader of the Year.  She also won a silver Anthem Award. Her work has made her an invaluable contributor to both local and national publications, news, and podcasts. Her focus is on advocacy and policy change, centering around safety and equity. She is the author of the book, Delivering, which is out now.  The book is meant to empower women, mothers, working women, women in healthcare, and to inspire change. .

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