This chapter profiles Dr. Suzanne Koven, a physician-writer who gave voice to widespread imposter syndrome among women in medicine (Koven S, About. Suzanne Koven MD, MFA. https://suzannekoven.com/about/ , n.d.; Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center, Suzanne Koven, Letter to a young female physician. https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/title-event-suzanne-koven-letter-young-female-p , 2021). After graduating from Yale University with a degree in English literature, Dr. Koven attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed residency there, graduating in 1989 (Johns Hopkins Hub, Holding up a mirror to a life in medicine. https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/20/koven-letter-female-physician , 2021, May 20; Johns Hopkins Medicine, Beyond the dome: Suzanne Koven. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/2022/11/beyond-the-dome-suzanne-koven , 2022, November 7). She joined Harvard Medical School faculty and practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital for over 30 years (Koven S, About. Suzanne Koven MD, MFA. https://suzannekoven.com/about/ , n.d.; Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Suzanne Koven, MD, MFA. https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/suzanne-koven , n.d.). In her 40s, Koven earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Bennington Writing Seminars, launching her second career as a medical essayist and Boston Globe columnist (Koven S, About. Suzanne Koven MD, MFA. https://suzannekoven.com/about/ , n.d.; Johns Hopkins Hub, Holding up a mirror to a life in medicine. https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/20/koven-letter-female-physician , 2021, May 20). Her 2017 New England Journal of Medicine essay “Letter to a Young Female Physician,” named the pervasive experience of imposter syndrome among women physicians (Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center, Suzanne Koven, Letter to a young female physician. https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/title-event-suzanne-koven-letter-young-female-p , 2021; Koven, N Engl J Med. 376(20):1907–1909, 2017). The essay became her acclaimed 2021 book published by W.W. Norton. In 2019, she became Mass General’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence, focusing on narrative medicine education (Johns Hopkins Hub, Holding up a mirror to a life in medicine. https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/20/koven-letter-female-physician , 2021, May 20; Massachusetts General Hospital Giving, The healing power of storytelling. https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/the-healing-power-of-storytelling , 2022, September 9; Koven, Letter to a young female physician: notes from a medical life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2021).

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This chapter profiles Dr. Suzanne Koven, a physician-writer who gave voice to widespread imposter syndrome among women in medicine (Koven S, About. Suzanne Koven MD, MFA. https://suzannekoven.com/about/ , n.d.; Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center, Suzanne Koven, Letter to a young female physician. https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/title-event-suzanne-koven-letter-young-female-p , 2021). After graduating from Yale University with a degree in English literature, Dr. Koven attended Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and completed residency there, graduating in 1989 (Johns Hopkins Hub, Holding up a mirror to a life in medicine. https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/20/koven-letter-female-physician , 2021, May 20; Johns Hopkins Medicine, Beyond the dome: Suzanne Koven. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/articles/2022/11/beyond-the-dome-suzanne-koven , 2022, November 7). She joined Harvard Medical School faculty and practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital for over 30 years (Koven S, About. Suzanne Koven MD, MFA. https://suzannekoven.com/about/ , n.d.; Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Suzanne Koven, MD, MFA. https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/suzanne-koven , n.d.). In her 40s, Koven earned an MFA in nonfiction writing from Bennington Writing Seminars, launching her second career as a medical essayist and Boston Globe columnist (Koven S, About. Suzanne Koven MD, MFA. https://suzannekoven.com/about/ , n.d.; Johns Hopkins Hub, Holding up a mirror to a life in medicine. https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/20/koven-letter-female-physician , 2021, May 20). Her 2017 New England Journal of Medicine essay “Letter to a Young Female Physician,” named the pervasive experience of imposter syndrome among women physicians (Harvard Mahindra Humanities Center, Suzanne Koven, Letter to a young female physician. https://mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/title-event-suzanne-koven-letter-young-female-p , 2021; Koven, N Engl J Med. 376(20):1907–1909, 2017). The essay became her acclaimed 2021 book published by W.W. Norton. In 2019, she became Mass General’s inaugural Writer-in-Residence, focusing on narrative medicine education (Johns Hopkins Hub, Holding up a mirror to a life in medicine. https://hub.jhu.edu/2021/05/20/koven-letter-female-physician , 2021, May 20; Massachusetts General Hospital Giving, The healing power of storytelling. https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/the-healing-power-of-storytelling , 2022, September 9; Koven, Letter to a young female physician: notes from a medical life. W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2021).