Sponsorship Opportunities

The AAMC Mid-Career Women Faculty Leadership Development Seminar is a three-and-a-half-day seminar designed for women physicians and scientists who hold medical school appointments at the associate professor level and leadership positions within their discipline, department or institution. This intensive and highly interactive seminar emphasizes the skills needed to advance to senior roles within academic medicine, and provides time for participants to strategically reinvigorate and realign their career with their goals. Topics covered include: communication, overcoming challenges in the changing landscape of academic medicine, negotiation, wellness and politics. The personalized curriculum and interactivity of this seminar helps participants discover pathways to leadership and brainstorm ways to advance women in academic medicine and science.

The Office of Academic Affairs and the Virginia Kneeland Frantz Society for Women Faculty provide funds to partially cover the registration costs of full-time VP&S faculty members who attend this seminar. Faculty must contact the Office of Academic Affairs prior to applying to the seminar in order to take advantage of this opportunity.

Please visit the Calendar of Events for upcoming funding application dates and instructions.

For information, please email: Office_Acad_Affairs@cumc.columbia.edu.