The first Women Empowerment in Emergency Medicine (WEEM) conference brought together around 80 experts from acute, emergency and intensive care medicine at the INOB training center on 29.03.2025. In addition to practical workshops and presentations, the event provided an important platform for networking.
This conference was deliberately organized on an interdisciplinary basis in order to bring together female doctors, nurses and employees in the emergency services from all over Germany. This included representatives from all national associations for emergency medicine, who together set a strong example for equality and diversity. Interactive workshops addressed topics that encourage women and help them to progress: Rhetoric, finance, women in leadership and personal development. The focus was not on quotas, but on fair opportunities, equal representation based on qualifications and structural support to make career paths for women in emergency medicine more sustainable.
“Specialists are the mainstay of acute, emergency and intensive care medicine. These are often women, but it is comparatively rare to find them in management positions in these professions – even though their skills and perspectives are a great asset,” says Mirjam Schmidt, Managing Director of INOB.
At the network speed dating session at the start of the event, it became clear how valuable the joint exchange is. The main results of the conference will be used to produce a position paper, which will be published shortly.
Cooperation partners for the event were Fürth Hospital, the Fürth Emergency Medicine Working Group, the Technology Transfer Centre for Digitalization in Emergency Medicine Education at Ansbach University of Applied Sciences in Stein and bildung37° – Die AGNF Kompetenzmanufaktur für Akut- und Notfallmedizin.
The conference is also supported by the following institutions and associations:
AG Frauen der Deutschen Gesellschaft Interdisziplinäre Notfall- und Akutmedizin
Bayerisches Rotes Kreuz
Deutscher Ärztinnenbund
Projektgruppe Empowered Women in Medicine der Jungen DIVI
Die Chirurginnen e.V.
Forum Anästhesistinnen (BDA)
DRF Luftrettung
Inspired by the success of the first edition, a new edition is already being planned for March 2026.