Knowing (and owning) Your Worth: Tips for contract negotiations

Laura B. Enyedi, MD, and Dagny Zhu, MD, discuss contract negotiations and the gender wage-gap in ophthalmology with Lisa Nijm, MD, JD. ·       Welcome to another episode of Mend the Gap :01 ·       The topic :45 ·       Introduction Lisa Nijm, MD, JD 1:10 ·       What are the most important parts of contract negotiation? 4:20 ·       What are the items that are the most important to negotiate? 6:09 ·       Do you find a middle ground when it comes to negotiations? 11:04 ·       Receiving backlash for being "too aggressive" in negotiations 15:05 ·       Approaching negotiations with confidence 19:17 ·       Gender pay-gaps 20:14 ·       Women physicians and inequality 27:52 ·       For more information, go to realworldophthalmology.com and wioonline.org 31:50 ·       Thank you 33:20 We'd love to hear from you! Send your comments/questions to [email protected]. Follow us on Twitter @Healio_OSN. Laura B. Enyedi, MD, is professor of ophthalmology and pediatrics at Duke Eye Center and medical director of South Durham Ophthalmology in North Carolina. Lisa Nijm, MD, JD, is a cornea, cataract and LASIK surgeon at Warrenville Eyecare & LASIK, licensed attorney, innovator and assistant professor at the University of Illinois Eye & Ear Infirmary. Dagny Zhu, MD, is a cornea, cataract, and refractive surgeon and medical director and partner at NVISION Eye Centers in Rowland Heights, CA. She can be reached on twitter @DZEyeMD. Disclosures: Enyedi and Zhu report no relevant financial disclosures. Healio could not confirm relevant financial disclosures for Nijm at the time of posting.