Mission

Innovate, Educate, Advocate, and Integrate: preparing tomorrow’s physicians for excellence in health care delivery to all women across the lifespan.

Philosophy

The lives of women will only become better when health professional training imbues a holistic, comprehensive strategy for caring for and solving problems for women.  An optimal comprehensive, non-reproductive and reproductive women-centered focus with clinical problem solving in sex and gender medicine is best achieved in a robust multidisciplinary setting from a blended biopsychosocial/public health approach done in an academic manner that nurtures excellence in: educational innovation, clinical care, research endeavors, advocacy for patients and mentorship and advocacy for students and future physicians.

Goals

1. Promote ongoing integration of new scientific development in girls’ and women’s health into the medical curriculum.

2. Spearhead innovations in educational research to advance women’s health.

3. Foster the development of the next generation of physician leaders in women’s health education, care and research.

4. Provide leadership development for students through student advising, mentoring, shadowing, research and community health opportunities.

5. Enable role modeling of physician effectiveness in girls’ and women’s health education outreach through student participation in community events.

6. Energize faculty in all disciplines throughout the entire institution to include women’s health in their curricula and enable new educational collaborations and synergies.

7. Enhance the visibility and reputation of the professional education program throughout the academic health center, the university, the local, regional and national community.

8. Promote replication of the medical college educational model of integration of women’s health.