Advancing Women Fellows
Women in Leadership and Development (WILD) is a trainee-led program that provides women fellows in the Department of Medicine with a toolkit for career advancement and skills to negate the systemic gender bias and inequities in academic medicine.
Curriculum
The WILD curriculum is a series of skill-building sessions open to all department fellows. Topics include:
- Personal self-reflection: Career Pathway Panel
- CV writing workshop
- Building your Personal Board of Directors: Shaping Leadership Identity
- Negotiating your first contract
- Allyship, Advocacy and Empowerment
- Financial Power
- How to become a physician scientist
- From Fellowship to Faculty
Complete three sessions to earn a certificate of completion.
Why It Matters
Although more women than ever are graduating from medical school, women are still underrepresented among academic medicine faculty and leadership, including full professorships, division chiefs and department chairs.
To address these disparities, WILD fosters and promotes:
- Advancement of women through education, professional growth, and leadership development
- A collaborative environment among women in medicine at UW
- Networking and mentorship opportunities for department fellows
- Professional advancement of women in the institution and beyond
Leadership
Program Co-Founder
Faculty Advisor
Program Co-Founder
Gastroenterology Fellow
WILD Book Club Founder
Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Faculty Advisor
Program Administrator
Book Club
The WILD book club has been facilitated by Lauren Banaszak and meets periodically at Leopold’s on Regent Street. Books that have been read to date:
- Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
- Letter to a Young Female Physician by Suzanne Koven
- Lean In by Sheryl Sandburg
Loaner copies of any of these books are available by request. Email kwestmas@medicine.wisc.edu to arrange pick up.
Learn more about the origins of the WILD program in a related Department of Medicine news article.