AWAEM Newsletter
Spring 2010
Why Join AWAEM? The Academy for Women in Academic Emergency Medicine (AWAEM) has been established to Why read the Newsletter? promote the recruitment, retention, advancement and leadership of women in academic emergency medicine throughout their career and it is moving ahead rapidly! Member Highlights During the first 6 months we have developed electronic communication, a web site, links, a list serve and AWAEM Announcements started key data bases, including journal articles of importance to women in academic emergency mediNews You Can Use cine and a book club. We have developed national organization collaborative initiatives with the AAMC, & Much More…. ACEP, and CDEM. We have also planned for the first annual luncheon and AWAEM meetings during Be in the know! the upcoming SAEM national meeting. This year’s focus will be on Life/Work Balance.
YOU are a valuable resource & your career will be enhanced by membership in AWAEM!
http://www.saem.org/AWAEM Dear Women of Academic Emergency Medicine: We are establishing a Regional and National networking structure for both junior and senior women faculty using the SAEM Regional Meetings model to set up the AWAEM geographic structure for mentor networking. There are six established regions: Midwest, Western, New England, MidAtlantic, Southeastern, and New York. Our pilot in March 2010 is with the Western Regional meeting. We have an AWAEM membership drive in process. All AWAEM members must also be SAEM members, so this has the potential to increase SAEM membership! AWAEM has an awards working group and is searching out existing awards and creating a formal approach for AWAEM to nominate women for these awards. The goal is to also create AWAEM specific awards and develop a process of nomination and selection of candidates/winners for awards to established award processes. AWAEM helps to address the unique needs of women in academic emergency medicine and to positively impact our ability to train emergency physicians. We work to meet the challenges of health care by enhancing teams that include women physicians, not only because of their numbers within the medical community, but because of their ideas, skills, interests, and creativity that are essential to success. We provide our members with valuable opportunities to join together for the exchange of information to advance education and research in Emergency Medicine as it relates to women in academic emergency medicine. As an AWAEM member you gain valuable access to women in academic emergency medicine who are committed to recruitment, promotion, and retention of women in academic emergency medicine. The networking alone is worth your membership! The success of AWAEM will come primarily from the support, hard work, and dedication of its members. We envision that AWAEM will contribute to the specialty of EM for many years to come. Advancing more women to positions of senior rank and leadership will provide important perspectives for decision making and speed the curricular, organizational, and policy changes needed to ensure a more effective representation of women in academic emergency medicine. Our specialty can benefit from this critical talent pool. We welcome input to shape this organization from those who support its mission. Kathleen Clem MD FACEP Chair Department of EM, Loma Linda University Medical Center
News You Can Use Are SALARY, TENURE and PROMOTIONS on your mind? Have you ever wanted to how to access accurate information on these issues, particularly as they relate to women in our profession? Then, these 3 links are for you.
Do you want to: Get a current, reliable and FASCINATING information about the gender breakdown of EM and other faculty and at your institution? http://www.aamc.org/members/gwims/statistics/stats09/wimstatisticsreport2009.pdf. The AAMC has been publishing this snapshot annually since 1983. The data is available by gender, rank and tenure, percentage of women as new hires, gender of chairs and division chiefs, and much more….
Find out about salaries—the total income attributable to teaching, patient care, or research for medical school faculty? https://services.aamc.org/publications/index.cfm?fuseaction=Product.displayForm&prd_id=282&prv_id=344 The AAMC’s Report on Medical School Faculty Salaries is likely their most popular publication. You can either buy the report (a little pricey so get your department to buy it) or your Faculty Affairs department may have a copy or give you access to a password from your school that will get you in. This is one of the best sources of info on salaries and many schools use this as their benchmark.
Understand more about the role of unconscious bias in job recruitment and evaluations in 2 pages? Unconscious Bias in Faculty and Leadership Recruitment: A Literature Review This article reviews the scientific literature on the theory of unconscious bias in job recruitment and evaluations, and offers suggestions for search committees and others involved in hiring decisions at medical schools and teaching hospitals. This is a great summary on this important topic!
AWAEM SAEM Annual Meeting Thursday, June 3rd 9:30 AM - Preeti Jois-Bilowich Didactic On Life/Work Balance 10:30 AM AWAEM Business meeting 11:30 AM - AWAEM Luncheon Focus: Life and Work Balance Seating by Region
Member News They Got Funded! Drs Stephanie Abbuhl & Jeane Ann Grisso, University of Pennsylvania Achieving Success for Women & Academic Medicine:A Randomized Multi-level Trial Despite an increase in female representation, there remains a disproportionate number of women faculty at full professor ranks. Through a 4-yr NIH-funded trial with interventions geared toward leadership, manuscript writing, and work practice analysis, Drs Abbuhl and Grisso hope to understand how to create an environment where women can succeed fully in their careers, thus maximizing their contributions to academic medicine.
Coming Soon!!!
Leadership Award!
To An INBOX Near You….
Dr. Julie Welch, Indiana University School of Medicine Is the recipient of the 2010 IU Women’s History Month Leadership Award. There are only five of these awarded and she is recognized for her efforts in the Women in Emergency Medicine Mentoring Group she founded in 2004. She also is an active and inaugural member of the IU Women's Council. Julie is a prime example of how leading by example and promoting networking and positive relationships can change a culture. Julie is also an AWAEM Book Club leader. Interested in the AWAEM Book Club?
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AWAEM is committed to networking & mentoring opportunities for our members. Be on the look out for an email asking you to fill out a SHORT bio. You will be glad you did….