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

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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.