CURRICULUM

Developed under the guidance of an advisory committee of national leaders from academic health centers and leadership programs, ELAM's comprehensive curriculum combines traditional leadership and management topics with exploration of emerging academic health administration issues and personal and professional development focused on leadership, career advancement and communication. Building competency and a sense of community through the use of the latest educational and communications technologies is also an important focus of the curriculum.

Program highlights include opportunities to meet with nationally recognized leaders in academic medicine, dentistry and public health, as well as in government and industry, and to interact with peers from different disciplines and institutions. In between the program's three intensive onsite sessions, fellows complete a variety of independent assignments, including interviews with senior executives to understand the operations and challenges of their institutions from other perspectives, and the design and implementation of an action project to address an institutional need or goal.

The ELAM curriculum encompasses a range of teaching modalities, including in-depth case analyses, individual and small-group learning, team work, mentoring and coaching, as well as more traditional interactive lecture formats.

ELAM is a core program of the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa. The Institute continues the legacy of advancing women in medicine that began in 1850 with the founding of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the nation's first women's medical school and a predecessor of today's Drexel University College of Medicine.