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Affiliate Programs
Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine
The Archives & Special Collections on Women in Medicine & Homeopathy is temporarily housed at Hagerty Library.
Conversations About Women's Health
The Institute's outreach efforts to underserved communities has focused on health education, accessible health services and mentoring community residents. Concurrently, the Institute personnel have developed increased levels of competence in culturally sensitive approaches to women in diverse, underserved communities.
Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM®) Program for Women
The ELAM® program is the only in-depth national and international program which focuses on preparing women faculty in academic medicine for senior executive leadership positions.
Gender and Ethnic Medicine Project (GEM)
The GEM Project is a program of the Institute's committed to improving the health status of women and ethnic minorities. This is a multi-pronged approach utilizing education of healthcare providers and community members, research, and leadership.
Research Programs
The Institute promotes interdisciplinary Sex and Gender Research in both basic and clinical sciences, and encourages faculty and students to develop research protocols that will elucidate sex differences in biologic processes and gender differences in the psychosociocultural factors affecting health and disease.
Affiliated Programs
Center for Women's Health
The mission of the Center for Women's Health is to provide comprehensive, integrated health care for women. Recently re-located to 219 N. Broad St., across from Hahnemann Hospital, the Center also continues to provide satellite services at Woman's Medical Hospital in East Falls. The Center is also home to the nation's first and only multidisciplinary university-based center for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome.
Women's Health Education Program (WHEP)
Established in 1993 as the first women's health curriculum in a U.S. medical school, the WHEP program emphasizes the responsibility of all physicians in delivering women's health care. It teaches students to recognize differences between women and men beyond their reproductive systems, including their different responses to interventions such as medications, diet and surgery.
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