Enhancing Diversity in Academic Medicine

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Enhancing Diversity in Academic Medicine

• Mary Lou Voytko, Ph.D.
• Professor of Neurobiology and Anatomy
• Director, Womens Health Center of Excellence
• For Research, Leadership, Education
• Wake Forest University School of Medicine

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Representation of Medical Women inAcademic
Medicine, 1961-2007
M.D. Graduates
49
33
Faculty
2007
Reference AAMC Analysis in Brief, 2006
Benchmarking 2006-2007
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Hematology/Oncology Resident Demographics
AAMC JAMA, 2007
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U.S. Medical School Faculty Distribution by
Gender and Rank, 2007                        
                                                  
                                                  
                  
AAMC Benchmarking, 2007
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Enhancing Diversity at WFUSM

• Institutional diversity assessment conducted
• Annual review of Department Chair
• Diversity Standing Committee formed
• Evaluate recruitment practices AA compliance
• Make recommendations to the FEC and Dean
• To assure diverse panels of candidates for most
  faculty positions
• Maya Angelou Research Center on Minority Health
• Womens Health Center of Excellence for Research,
  Leadership, Education

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Womens Health Center of Excellence for
Research, Leadership, Education (WHCOE)
Leadership and Mentoring Program

• Missions
• To facilitate recruitment, promotion, retention,
  and professional career development of women
  faculty
• As part of the mission, it is essential to help
  women faculty be successful in whatever path they
  choose and to foster effective mentoring

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WHCOE Leadership ProgramProfessional Development
Activities

• Faculty Workshops
• Navigating the Political Terrain
• Getting Things Done
• Pathways to Promotion
• Managing Conflict
• Negotiating Skills
• Successfully Navigating
• Career Pathways
• Achieving Balance

• Resident Workshops
• Evaluating job opportunities
• Primary elements of negotiating your first
  position
• Pathways to professor
• Negotiating with Pharma
• Balance personally and professionally

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WHCOE Leadership Program Women Junior Faculty
Mentoring Program

• Rationale
• The number of women full professors per medical
  school is extremely low
• Low numbers attributed to a lack of strong,
  supportive mentoring
• No current programs directed explicitly at
  furthering the professional career development of
  women junior faculty

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• WHCOE Women Faculty Mentoring Program
• Established November, 1999-launched in Summer,
  2000
• Mission
• Create a formalized mentoring program to assist
  and promote the advancement of women junior
  faculty in their professional career development.
• Provide a mechanism for the recruitment and
  retention of
• women faculty
• Goals
• Link women junior faculty (instructor, asst.
  prof) with women and men senior faculty (assoc.
  and full professor) in one-on-one mentoring
  relationships
• Provide resources and activities to enhance and
  support the
• mentoring relationships.
• Increase the number of women faculty in senior
  faculty ranks.

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MENTEE/MENTOR NEEDS/SKILLS ASSESSMENTS

• Developing a Promotion/Tenure Package
• Teaching (Curriculum Development/Evaluation
  student
• teaching)
• Grantsmanship (e.g., experimental design,
  budgets)
• Professional Development
• Time management, negotiation, conflict management
• Presentations skills, communication skills
• Goal setting
• effort distribution teaching, research,
  clinical
• Research or clinical research interests or
  expertise

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WHCOE Women Faculty Mentoring Program

• Initially
• 25 junior faculty and 33 senior faculty joined
  the program
• Current Statistics
• 104 total mentees (past current)
• 14 past mentees promoted to Associate Professor
• 24 past mentees left school 8/24 promoted
• 46 current mentees (23 MD, 16 PhD, 7 degree
  combinations)
• 90 total mentors (past current)
• 43 with current mentees 7 of these mentors have
  2 or more mentees

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WHCOE Women Faculty Mentoring Program

• Anesthesiology -5
• Biochemistry 1
• Biomedical Engineering - 2
• Cancer Biology
• Dentistry 1
• Family
• Community Med. -1

• OB/GYN 1
• Otolaryngology - 2
• Pathology 2
• Pediatrics 6
• Physiology/Pharm 1
• Public Health Sci -6
• Radiation Oncology 1

Gastroenterology 1 Geriatrics -3 Hem/Oncology
2 Infectious Disease -1 Int. Medicine
5 Neurology - 4
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WHCOE Women Faculty Mentoring Program

• Resources/Activities
• Mentoring Award
• Mentoring Guides
• Mentoring Library
• Brown Bag Luncheons
• Effective Communication
• Empowered Negotiation
• Promoting Yourself
• Panel Discussions

• Journal Club
• Invited Speakers
• Socials
• Workshops
• Meyers-Briggs Type Indicator Training
• CV/Teaching Dossier Workshop

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WHCOE Women Faculty Mentoring Program

• Training for the mentors
• Conflict management, sexual harassment,
  scientific fraud gender/diversity differences
  skills
• Getting/giving feedback understanding
  communication styles toxic mentoring
• Facilitate peer mentoring groups for mentees
• Evaluations
• Quarterly interviews with new mentoring pairs
• Focus groups
• Event questionnaire provided to attendees at each
  event
• Yearly survey to all mentor/mentees for
  evaluation of relationship and mentoring program

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