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Mentoring

The Women in Medicine program will work towards implementing a mentoring program to assist in the planning and development of strong academic careers for junior faculty, graduate students, and residents by providing skill-building opportunities and mentoring of senior faculty members. The success of mentoring programs will result in increased numbers of women remaining in academic medicine, attaining senior academic ranks and tenure, assuming positions of leadership within the institution, and conducting and publishing research.

Salary and Gender Equity

The Women in Medicine program will work with the Salary and Gender Equity Committee to ensure gender equity in the pay scale for all faculty and work with departments to address the underlying discrimination of salary inequity. Resources will be devoted for annual salary negotiation forums to provide women faculty, residents, and graduate students with skills and techniques in eliminating salary inequity within their departments.

Recruitment and Retention of Women Faculty

Research has demonstrated the attrition rate for women in academic medicine out of the tenure track past the assistant professor level.

Given the demonstrated attrition rate of women in the senior academic ranks the School of Medicine is in immediate need of recruitment and retention opportunities for outstanding women faculty. The Women in Medicine program will work with the Vice President for Health Sciences in identifying programs aimed at the retention of women within the tenure track past the assistant professor level, and aims to establish networks and collaborative efforts for research and funding to increase the opportunities for success within the tenure track at the School of Medicine .

Career Advancement

Working in conjunction with the recruitment and retention efforts, the program will work to identify possible limitations for career advancement within academic medicine. The program will look at departmental and institutional practices that may prevent women from achieving senior academic ranks and subsequent tenure including maternity time, parenting requirements, and schedule flexibility issues. One of the goals for the Women in Medicine program will be to address career advancement issues by increasing the number of women participating in decision making bodies within the institution.