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Certainly, the social media challenge the traditional stereotypes and perceptions in science faster than ever before (#ilooklikeascientist, #ilooklikeaprofessor). FeminEM, an open access resource aiming to support the development and advancement of all women in emergency medicine, has recently opened a speaker’s bureau for exactly this purpose. Undoubtedly, the organizing committee will be able to find many suitable women again next June in Berlin at DAS SMACC.
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The last conference took place in Dublin in June 2016 and the organizers have shown the world how it is possible to steeply increase the percentage of women faculty to almost 40% even in these traditionally male dominated specialties: look hard and encourage promising and enthusiastic but likely younger than usual women to give a talk at such a prestigious meeting. Annual meetings started a few years ago and it would now likely be the largest medical conference in the world if tickets were not strictly limited.
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Social media in critical care and emergency medicine (SMACC) is a revolutionary idea including the concept of Free Open Access Medical Education (FOAM).
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The most striking example that women need to work harder for similar academic recognition is Nepotism and Sexism in Peer Review showing that a female researcher needed 2.5 times as many publications as a male researcher to achieve the same score at the Swedish Medical Research Council. Such unwritten laws and non-transparent processes have been shown to disadvantage women. Sometimes academics directly suggest giving a talk at a future congress, a possibility of which (according to our personal experience) many women seem to be unaware of. This is an interesting approach because more often than not, the development of the scientific program of a conference is a relatively informal process that favors “old boys clubs”. In the last years, hundreds of scientists/speakers have decided to boycott “all-men panels” in different fields and offered their help in finding female speakers (e. g. Is it true? Of course not, certainly not in an international context. This is a simple but devastating statement. According to one of the organizers, simply not enough high-profile women could be found. According to data presented there, the percentage of women among speakers and moderators was only 20.9%, although the total female input including delegates and poster presenters was almost twice as high: 39.3%. For example, the annual European Society for Emergency Medicine (EuSEM) congress was recently held in Vienna. The underrepresentation of women in academic medicine is particularly evident in some subspecialties such as critical care and emergency medicine. This is a problem for women in science, because such meetings can be extremely productive, many successful projects have once started in restricted access, such as faculty lounges or at faculty dinners during such events. From Austria to Australia, women continue to be a rare species as faculty of medical conferences although in many countries, medical students and young doctors are more often women than men.