National Women in Medicine Day is a national movement to make visible the contributions of women across medicine and healthcare by empowering organizations and communities everywhere to recognize, celebrate, and amplify the women making a difference.

Taking place in the middle of Women in Medicine Month, the day is a moment to recognize, celebrate, and amplify the women who are making a difference across medicine and healthcare.

It creates the moment to highlight so many across the spectrum — the resident who created a new patient-care initiative or nurse who has mentored generations of colleagues, researchers doing important work behind the scenes and the community physician serving an underserved population, a department chair changing institutional culture, the medical student already advocating for patients, or the woman we’ve all seen who has quietly been doing extraordinary work for 20 years without recognition.