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Women Liaison Officers (WLOs)
Women Liaison Officers (WLOs) are AAMC's institutional contacts for issues
related to the advancement of women and gender equity in academic medicine.
The WLO's primary responsibility is to disseminate information from the AAMC
to their institution on matters affecting women in medical education.
WLOs play a significant role in fostering women's networking within and
between medical education centers and in developing and sharing resources.
WLOs are appointed by medical school deans, major teaching hospital CEOs,
and member academic societies. They are typically well-connected individuals
at an institution with a demonstrated interest in improving the environment
for women students, faculty and/or administrators.
10 Ways for AAMC Women Liaison Officers to Become More
Effective Organizational Leaders
- Speak with your medical school dean or hospital CEO to designate at
least two WLOs to serve as official liaisons to AAMC and share relevant
information and resources. Inform AAMC when transitions occur.
- Invest in your own professional development by attending AAMC Annual
Meeting skill-building sessions. Upcoming Conferences dates: Nov. 6-11,
2009—Boston, and Nov. 5-10, 2010—Washington, D.C.
- Meet with your Dean and Department Chairs annually to understand the
institutional agenda and to share the mission and vision of your WIM
programs. Explore collaborative opportunities.
- Know your institutional data on women
and minorities. Help spear head efforts to respond to the annual AAMC
Women in U.S. Academic Medicine
Statistics and Medical School Benchmarking Survey to track women's
representation in academic medicine. And use this resource to educate
faculty and staff, to strengthen your own professional development activities,
and to compare local outcomes with national trends.
- Network and build inclusive communities by holding regularly scheduled
meetings with your institutional women leaders for information exchange
and support.
- Nominate other women leaders for local and national awards such as
the AAMC Women in Medicine Leadership Award.
- Stay connected with the WLO network by receiving and reviewing regular
updates through AAMC.
- Identify women for leadership development opportunities such as the
AAMC Early and Mid Career Professional Development Seminars, ELAM
and SELAM.
- Collaborate with your Faculty
Affairs Dean to: track exit interviews, review women and minority
faculty data, identify women leaders for faculty search committees.
- Advance your work by contributing to Academic
Medicine, the official, peer-reviewed journal of the AAMC. Share
your lessons learned in program development, overcoming challenges,
strategies to building bridges.
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