International Women’s Day 2024: Four generations of support for women in medicine
Lecturer in Academic General Practice Dr Sarah Mills marked International Women’s Day (8 March) with this fantastic photo of four ‘generations’ of support for women in academic medicine. The image was taken when all four people featured attended January’s Society for Academic Primary Care conference, where current Doctoral Training Programme candidate Dr Sarah Bowers won the ‘Best Oral Presentation’ prize. It features Dr Bowers holding a picture of her supervisor Dr Mills, who is holding a picture of her doctoral supervisor Prof Blair H. Smith, who is holding a picture of his doctoral supervisor Sir Lewis Ritchie! Dr Mills captured the photo as part of an effort to acknowledge that “some of our biggest supporters are not necessarily women but ‘allies.’”