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Sarah Yong is an impressive person. Advocacy, Training, Representation and being a new fellow of the College of Intensive Care to boot.\n\nTheres a lot to talk about when you sit down with Dr Sarah Yong. Let\u2019s make it easy by focussing on three big issues;\n\nGender issues; Women in Intensive Care Network. www.womenintensive.org\nTraining issues; The Critical Care Collaborative and the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM. www.vpecc.com\nRepresentation issues; New Fellows Rep on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine. www.cicm.org\n\nWhere to start?\n\nWomen in Intensive Care Network www.womenintensive.org @WomenIntensive\n\nIf my sources are correct there pretty much the same number of women and men out there in the world. Further it seems that there are roughly the same number of women and men presenting to intensive care units. This pattern does not repeat itself in terms of the Intensive Care doctors.\n\nLet\u2019s talk about this. Let\u2019s listen to the people that are raising awareness about this. The Women in Intensive Care are talking about it and publishing about it too. You may have heard about the Medical Journal of Australia article; \u201cFemale representation at Australasian specialty conferences\u201d.\n\nBut they have not stopped proving their point. Next there was \u201cWomen in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine\u201d published in Jean-Louis Vincents open access e-journal \u201cICU Management and Practice\u201d There have been only four presidents of the College of Intensive Care, all male. However the pre-cursor to the College was the Joint Faculty of Intensive Care Medicine (JFICM), which was the body that actually created the college. The first leader of JFICM was the one and only Dr Felicity Hawker.\n\nHopefully soon to be published will be a presentation from the Noosa ANZICS CTG (Australia & New Zealand Intensive Care Society Clinical Trials Group) by Dr Naomi Yarwood about the lack of women in the ANZICS CTG studies over the last 20 years.\n\nNext Issue; Training. After competing her Fellowship exams Sarah got involved in the Critical Care Collaborative and went on to found the Victorian Primary Examination Course for CICM (VPECC). Running that is a big job in itself. It\u2019s popular too and the July 2017 edition is already full. Sort of. Importantly the candidate stream is full for 2017 but there is a teaching stream too. Have a look at this if you are an aspiring educationalist; http://www.vpecc.com/teaching-stream.html\n\nAt the time of our conversation the teaching stream not yet full for 2017. It is on in July. Get in touch with Sarah or the other guys at VPECC.com, if not this year maybe next year?\n\nThen she is on the Board of the College of Intensive Care Medicine trying to contribute and trying to gently help the college progress. I\u2019m exhausted already.\n\nHave a listen. Be inspired. Get involved. \n\n\nList of speakers at Trainee Symposium\n\nDr Yasmine Ali Abdehamid \nDr Michael Ashbolt\nDr Bronwyn Avard\nDr Celia Bradford\nDr Michaela Carter\nDr Naomi Diel\nDr Kelly Jones\nDr Fiona Miles\nDr Nhi Nguyen\nDr Nudrat Rashid\nA/Prof Ian Seppelt \nDr Li Huey Tan\nDr Sarah Yong\nDr Paul Young\n\nOne might notice the slightly different gender imbalance there. A bunch of interesting people who have experience of medical training stretched from Zaria, Nigeria through Leicester, England to Auckland, New Zealand.\n\nWhich reminds me; may I offer an apology to all New Zealanders for all the times I manage to say Australian rather than Australasian or Australia-New Zealand.\n\n\nReferences;\n\nWomen in Leadership in Intensive Care Medicine\nModra LJ, Yong SA, Austin DE\nICU Management and Practice; 16 (3): 174-6\n\nFemale Representation of Australasian specialty conferences. \nModra LJ, Austin DE, Yong SA, Chambers EJ and Jones D. \nMJA 2016; 204(10) 385