What We Do
• Lectures: WHEP is responsible for providing lectures on women’s health topics to first through fourth year medical students. Topics covered in lectures include:
- Orientation to Women’s Health
- Introduction to Women’s Health & Sex and Gender Medicine
- Personal Attitudes towards Reproductive Options
- Domestic Violence
- Cultural Diversity
- Diagnosis & Management of Victims of Assault
- Eating Disorders
- Role of Culture in Medical Education & Clinical Care
- Women’s Health & Prevention
- Lesbian Health
• Women’s Health Seminar Series – a weekly series offered between October and February that is focused on the interests of first and second year medical students, but is open to all students.
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Dr. Nunez introducing a panel of speakers at Women's Health Day, March 11, 2008
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• Women’s Health Day – an annual ½ day given to the second year IFM Introduction to Clinical Medicine students on a selected women’s health topic. Past topics include:
- Let’s Talk About Sex
- International Women’s Health: A Global Perspective
- Population Specific Health Care: The needs of Latinas
- Asian American and Pacific Islander Women’s Health
• Women’s Health Pathway is open to all specialty interests, where students spend their fourth year learning advanced knowledge and clinical skills in girls’ and women’s health.
• Women’s Health Fourth Year Electives fourth year DUCOM students. Examples include the community elective; a college health experience; academic electives and comprehensive breast health.
• Women’s Health Research through grants from the Office of Women’s Health and the National Institutes of Health. These projects involve health education and outreach to communities in Philadelphia, frequently incorporating the participation of other organizations, such as churches, shelters, aid programs, and student organizations.
• Girls’ and Women’s Health Presentations regional and national presentations on girls’ and women’s health, given at conferences sponsored by organizations such as the American Medical Writers' Association, the American Heart Association, the American Medical Women's Association, the American Association of Medical Colleges, and others.
• Community Health Education – participate in local health fairs, present workshops on a variety of women’s health topics.
Current Projects
WHEP works on many projects related to women’s health and issues that affect women. Ongoing projects include:
- An NIH (NHLBI) sponsored grant to develop a model to teach medical students and health professionals about cultural issues in care and decrease gender and ethnic health disparities in heart, lung and blood diseases.
- Philadelphia Ujima, a grant sponsored by the US Department of Health and Human Services/Office on Women's Health, to teach a corps of community members within Philadelphia to do community outreach and health education in the areas of heart health, hypertension, stroke, diabetes, cancer screening, and fitness/obesity.
- A grant sponsored project to teach consumers how to read food labels in a way that directly affects their health.
Past Projects
WHEP initiated health education programs, and community-based projects that involved the participation of local community members. Some past projects include:
• Listen, Little Sister – an innovative health education intervention designed by WHEP to decrease high risk behavior in preteens and teens by an all day session with women and their daughters.
• Menopause Education Tool – an interactive health education project with community input that evaluated the utility of menopause health risk awareness and developed an assessment tool.
• An NIH (NHLBI/OWH) sponsored curricular dissemination program focused on educating medical students and health professionals on heart disease and women.
• Informed consent form language – a project that evaluated the role of informed consent language as a barrier to recruitment and retention of women and minorities.
• Health education seminars to increase awareness and address myths about organ and tissue donation.
• An Office of Women’s Health funded teen dating violence prevention project involving medical student trainers. For more information click here: In Touch With Teens brochure.
• A DHHS project to develop a video to teach how to read a food label. |