Women In Science and Health Committee announces conference opportunity
Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar
This leadership development seminar focuses on women physicians and scientists holding medical school appointments at the associate professor level, and holding leadership positions within their discipline, department or institution. The seminar's three and a half day curriculum is designed to provide mid-career faculty with the knowledge and skills required to continue advancing to leadership roles in academic medicine. This intensive and highly interactive seminar emphasizes the skills needed to advance to senior roles within academic medicine and provides time for participants to strategically reinvigorate and realign their career with their goals. The seminar covers leadership topics relevant to mid-career women faculty, such as: communication, overcoming challenges in the changing landscape of academic medicine, negotiation, wellness, politics, etc. all of which are central to being a leader at your academic health center. The personalized curriculum and interactivity of this seminar will help you and your peers discover pathways to leadership and brainstorm ways to advance women in academic medicine and science.
Attendees will develop academic medicine and science career building skills and employ strategic thinking about their career and leadership development.
The Mid-Career Seminar for Women is designed for women physicians and scientists holding medical school appointments at the associate professor level, with between 8-15 years experience in academic medicine or science.
- Date: Dec. 2-5, 2017
- Location: The Westin Kierland Resort and Spa, Scottsdale, Arizona
- Application closes Wed., September 27, 2017
- Register at www.aamc.org
Faculty who apply should advise gmarshall@hsc.wvu.edu, financial assistance could possibly be provided if you are accepted.