Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities (COSOWAM)

Mission

COSOWAM provides leadership and guidance regarding the progress of women and minorities in achievement of their full potential within the School Of Medicine (SOM).

Activities

• Monitoring representation of women and minorities
• Minority recruitment and retention
• Monitoring salary equity
• Professionalism proposal and leadership for SOM Professionalism Committee
• Recruitment tools for chairs
• VCU SOM Recruitment Resources, updated 4/12/06 [PDF]
• AAMC book series on The Successful Medical School Department Chair

Surveys

• SOM 2004 Faculty Exit Survey, © VCU [PDF]
• See poster "Reasons for Faculty Attrition Among Respondents to a Faculty Exit Survey" [PDF] presented at the AAMC National Meeting, November, 2005.
• SOM 1997 Faculty Survey on needs for career development and mentoring [PDF]

Publications

The following articles may require subscriptions. Wherever possible, these are provided freely to the VCU community via the VCU LIbraries' proxy server. Visitors from outside VCU may need to check for local availability.

• Buckley L.M., Sanders K., Shih M., Kallar S., Hampton C.L. for the Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities. Obstacles to promotion? Values of women faculty and career success and recognition. Academic Medicine. 2000; 75:283-288.
• Buckley L.M., Sanders K., Shih M., Hampton C.L. Attitudes of clinical faculty about career progress, career success and recognition, and commitment to academic medicine: results of a survey. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2000; 160:2625-2629.

Presentations

• Buckley L.M., Sanders K.M., Hampton C.L. Using a faculty survey to drive organizational change. AAMC WIM Small Group Discussion, October 30, 2000, Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois.