Resources

VCU Resources

• Virginia Commonwealth University
• VCU Health System
• VCU School of Medicine
• VCU School of Dentistry
• VCU School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs
• VCU Office of Continuing Medical Education
• VCU Institute for Women's Health
• Women's Health Residency Training at VCU

Virginia Resources

• University of Virginia School of Medicine
• Eastern Virginia Medical School Women in Medicine Program
• Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine at Virginia Tech
• Richmond Academy of Medicine, Inc.
• Medical Society of Virginia—Women Physicians’ Section
• The Virginia Network

National Organizations

• AAMC Women in Medicine Program
• National Institutes of Health—Women in Biomedical Careers
  • Women in Biomedical Research: Best Practices for Sustaining Career Success: proceedings from a meeting; 2008 March 4; Bethesda, MD. Bethesda: Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health; 2009. 50 p. A joint effort by the National Center for Research Resources and the Office of Research on Women’s Health for the National Institutes of Health Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers.
  • National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers: proceedings from a meeting, 2007 November 27-28; Bethesda, MD. Bethesda: Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health; 2008. 83 p. A joint effort by the National Institutes of Health Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers and the Office of Research on Women’s Health.

• The American Medical Women's Association (AMWA)

• American Society for Cell Biology—Women in Cell Biology
• The Association of Women Surgeons

Leadership Training

• Grace E. Harris Leadership Institute

Recommended Articles

The following article(s) 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.

• Increasing Women’s Leadership in Academic Medicine: Report of the AAMC Project Implementation Committee. Academic Medicine. 2002;77(10):1043–61.
• Can Evidence Inform the Debate? (Why Aren't More Women in Science?) [PDF] Science. 2007;317:199–200.
• Graceful Self-Promotion—It's Essential [PDF] Academic Physician & Scientist. February 2004;2-3.
• Birth Trends and Pregnancy Complications among Women Urologists [PDF], Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Vol. 208, No. 2, February 2009, pps 293 - 298.

World–Wide Web

• AAMC Faculty Vitae
• MomMD©, the online community for women in medicine