Upcoming MomDocFamily (MDF) events/programs
Our last annual event with children and family members was held on August 27, 2023. MDF members — check your email as summer approaches for information regarding our 2024 event.
Breastmilk Pumping Accommodations in Rhode Island Hospitals/Medical Settings
Here is a June 2024 list of pumping rooms/lactation spaces for physicians and medical students:
sites.brown.edu/…/lactation-room-locations-06.15.2024.pdf
– if anyone has additions or corrections to this list, please email Officeofwomeninmedicinea
They will make the updates and we will post back here.
Together with The Rhode Island Breastfeeding Coalition and Rhode Island hospitals, MDF developed a list of accommodations for pumping sterile breastmilk available to physicians and medical students, along with employees of hospitals/medical settings located throughout Rhode Island. This list is outdated; we have been working with a diverse group of stakeholders to improve the number and quality of these essential rooms. Please see the pdf (old): LACTATION ROOMS IN RI HOSPITALS DEC201
MDF Publications
MacNamara MM, Taylor JS, Grimm KJ, Taylor LE, Gottlieb, AS. Using a professional organization, MomDocFamily, to understand the lives of physician-mothers. Med Health RI. 2012 Jun;95(6):189-93. PMID: 22866508 MacNamaraetalMDF
MacNamara MM, Moren K, Taylor LE, Taylor JS. State-wide support for physician-mothers who are breastfeeding. Med Health RI. 2012 Jan;95(1):9-13. PMID: 22439455 breastfeeding MDF
Lechner BE, Gottlieb AS, Taylor LE. Effectively mentoring physician-mothers. Acad Med. 2009 Dec;84(12):1643- PMID 19940561 click here (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19940561/)
Women and Infants Hospital in Providence, RI sent out a press release about MomDocFamily that was “picked up” by several media outlets. To read the release, please visit:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/216160.php
Articles Related to Mothers in Medicine
To read “Barriers to Breastfeeding for US Physicians Who Are Mothers” published in JAMA Intern Med. Published online March 19, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.0320, please click here https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2674255?utm_campaign=articlePDF&utm_medium=articlePDFlink&utm_source=articlePDF&utm_content=jamainternmed.2018.0320)
Jagsi R, Griffith KA, Stewart A, Sambuco D, DeCastro R, Ubel PA. Gender Differences in the Salaries of Physician Researchers. JAMA, June 13, 2012- Vol 307, No. 22. PubMed PMID: 22692173 http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1182859
Carnes, Molly, MD, MS. What Would Patsy Mink Think? JAMA, February 8, 2012 – Vol 307, No. 6 – 571-572. PubMed PMID: 22318277 http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/307/6/571.full
Jagsi R, Tarbell NJ, Weinstein DF. Becoming a doctor, starting a
family–leaves of absence from graduate medical education. N Engl J Med. 2007 Nov 8;357(19):1889-91. PubMed PMID: 17989381.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp078163
Lahav G. How to survive and thrive in the mother-mentor marathon. . PubMed PMID: 20513421. To read (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20513421)