Early career women faculty encouraged to apply for AAMC seminar

Applications are being accepted for Faculty Development’s sponsorship of an early career woman faculty member’s attendance at the Association of American Medical College’s Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar set for July 8-11 in Washington, D.C.

The seminar is designed for women early in their first faculty appointment who are aiming for a leadership position in academic medicine (associate professors are not eligible). It is targeted primarily at physicians but is also pertinent for Ph.D. scientists.

Here are the seminar’s objectives:

• To assist each participant in creating an agenda for working toward her 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.
• To assist participants in identifying the skill areas on which they most need to work and give them a start in developing them.

The 2006 program will be available online beginning February 1, 2006 at http://www.aamc.org/meetings/specmtgs/

Submission Process and Deadline

Interested women faculty should submit a current CV and a brief (maximum of 1.5 page) response to the following:

1. Describe your over-all professional career goals, in particular, your interest in a leadership position in academic medicine.

2. How do you envision utilizing the skills learned in the AAMC Professional Development Seminar at UC Davis Health System?

Applications should be submitted via e-mail to gregg.servis@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.

Finalists will be required to complete an AAMC application.

The application deadline is February 17.