Women and Leadership

AAMC Early Career Women Faculty Seminar

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) offers a seminar for Early Career Women Faculty. This four-day professional development seminar is designed for women assistant professors and focuses on academic medicine career building, skills in curriculum vitae development and basic management skills. Attendees are encouraged to develop their social network through the career mapping sessions. The seminar is targeted primarily at physicians. CME credit is offered.

Seminar objectives:

• To assist participants in creating an agenda for working toward professional development goals;
• To provide participants with insights into the realities of building a career in academic medicine, into key ways in which academic medicine is changing, and into leadership qualities demanded by these realities and changes;
• To help participants to expand their network of colleagues and role models and to bring new energy to their networking; and
• To assist participants in identifying the skill areas on which they most need to work and give them a start in developing them.

Next meeting: July 10th-14th, 2010, Washington, DC.  The full program and application materials are available now on the AAMC meetings website: http://www.aamc.org/meetings/wim/ewim2010/start.htm.  Application deadline March 18, 2010.  Acceptance confirmations will be sent in mid-April 2010.  The Office of Faculty Affairs offers two scholarships for partial funding of the seminar. Once you have been accepted into the program, please contact the OFA to proceed with the internal review process for OFA funding.

AAMC Mid Career Women Faculty Seminar

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) offers a seminar for Mid-Career Women Faculty. This four-day professional development seminar is designed for women associate or full professors with clear potential for advancement to departmental and institutional leadership. CME credit is offered.

Seminar objectives:

• Develop career plans to advance along a path to leadership;
• Enhance skill in communication, especially with public audiences and media;
• Improve knowledge of institutional finance and departmental budgeting processes;
• Strengthen selected skills such as negotiation, conflict, personnel and time management; and
• Expand networks of mentors and colleagues in academic medicine.

Next meeting: December 10th-14th, 2010, Scottsdale, AZ. The full program and application materials will be available mid-summer 2010. The Office of Faculty Affairs offers two scholarships for partial funding of the seminar. Once you have been accepted into the program, please contact the OFA to proceed with the internal review process for OFA funding.