Office for Women in Medicine

Convening: For Women

Our Mission:

To promote the academic growth of women in medicine and medical sciences.

• Provides women students, trainees, fellows and faculty access to advisors and mentors.
• Brings distinguished women in the medical sciences to Yale School of Medicine as role models and mentors.
• Facilitates access for students to professional women in both a structured or an informal setting.
• Sponsors workshops and seminars on professional development and career opportunities for women in medicine and the sciences.
• Serves as a focus for the discussion and resolution of issues of interest to the Yale Medical School community.

Articles of Interest

• Survive and Thrive in the Mother Mentor Marathon
• Balancing Science and Family
• Attaining gender balance among managers, editors and reviewers Elsevier Editors' Update, August 2008
• NIH Helps Advance Women in Biomedical Research Careers
• Women's Health and Women's Leadership in Academic Medicine: Hitting the Same Glass Ceiling?
• Why Do Faculty Leave? Reasons for Attrition of Women and Minority Faculty from a Medical School
• Duality: When a doctor is also a mother, sometimes the hardest part of the day is just getting out the door.
• Searching for Excellence & Diversity