These factors directly contribute to the growing trend of Black women physicians leaving these fields to pursue nontraditional health careers. They are disproportionately passed over for promotions and opportunities despite quality work. Their contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts are expected, but not compensated or rewarded. Root causes of the exodus Black women physicians from academia and public health: In many academic and public health institutions, Black women feel undervalued, untitled, underfunded, and undersupported. UchГ© and Oni Blackstock created their counterspacesДЎ7:54 Value gained outside of academia, public healthДў4:08 Finding balance in racial equity opportunitiesДЈ4:17 On challenging the self-sacrificing mentality in medicineД¤2:26 On вЂњdoing the workвЂќ within academiaДefinition of CounterSpaces: CounterSpaces are academic and social safe spaces that allow underrepresented faculty to promote their own learning, wherein their experiences are validated and viewed as critical knowledge they have space to vent frustrations by sharing stories of isolation, microaggressions or overt discrimination and they can challenge the deficit notion of people of color and establish and maintain a positive collegial racial climate for themselves. Guests: Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS and UchГ© Blackstock, MDДҐ:22 Why Drs. Hosts: Michelle Ogunwole, MD, Naomi Fields, and LaShyra Nolen Essien, MD, MPH, Jazzmin Williams, and Jennifer Tsai MD, M.Ed Fields, LaShyra Nolen, Chioma Onuoha, Rohan Khazanchi, MPH, Dereck Paul, MD MS, Utibe R. Written and produced by: Michelle Ogunwole, MD, Naomi F. Recognize some common factors that influence Black womenвЂ™s decisions to leave traditional health careersДefine counterspaces and understand their valueДЄpply tools to combat burnout that could be applied to traditional or alternative health careers

In this episode, we invite the powerful sister duo Oni Blackstock, MD, MHS and UchГ© Blackstock, MD to share their experiences on leaving public health and academia to become social entrepreneurs, creating their own organizations in health equity.ДЄfter listening to this episode learners will be able toвЂ¦

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