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Mission

COSOWAM provides leadership and guidance regarding the progress of women and minorities in achievement of their full potential within the School Of Medicine (SOM).

Activities

• Monitoring representation of women and minorities
• Minority recruitment and retention
• Monitoring salary equity
• Professionalism proposal and leadership for SOM Professionalism Committee
• Recruitment tools for chairs
  • VCU SOM Recruitment Resources, updated 4/12/06
  • AAMC book series on The Successful Medical School Department Chair

Surveys

• SOM 2004 Faculty Exit Survey, copyright VCU
  • See poster "Reasons for Faculty Attrition Among Respondents to a Faculty Exit Survey" presented at the AAMC National Meeting, November, 2005.
• SOM 1997 Faculty Survey on needs for career development and mentoring
  • See articles based on data from this survey.

Reports: FY 2007

The following files are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in.

• Report on Representation of Women and Black Faculty in the VCU School of Medicine, 1997-2006. Presented April 2007 to the SOM Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities.
  • Slide Presentation: Representation Data for Women and Black Faculty
  • Benchmarking on the Status of Women and Black Faculty, highlights
  • VCU SOM Women Faculty by Department, 2006
  • VCU SOM Women Faculty by DepartmentTrend (2000-2006)
  • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Gender, and Tenure Status, 2006
  • VCU SOM Black Faculty by Department, 2006
    • VCU SOM Black Faculty by Department Trend (2000-2006)
    • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Black, and Tenure Status, 2006
  • VCU SOM Spanish Surname Faculty by Department, 2006
    • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Spanish Surname, and Tenure Status, 2006
  • VCU SOM Asian Descent by Department, 2006
    • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Asian, and Tenure Status, 2006

Reports: FY 2006

The following files are in PDF format and require the Adobe Acrobat Reader plug-in.

• Report on Representation of Women and Black Faculty in the VCU School of Medicine, 1997-2005. Presented April 12, 2006 to the SOM Executive Committee of chairs and deans.
  • Slide Presentation: Representation Data for Women and Black Faculty
  • Benchmarking on the Status of Women and Black Faculty, highlights
  • VCU SOM Women Faculty by Department, 2005
  • VCU SOM Women Faculty by DepartmentTrend (2000-2005)
  • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Gender, and Tenure Status, 2005
  • VCU SOM Black Faculty by Department, 2005
    • VCU SOM Black Faculty by Department Trend (2000-2005)
    • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Black, and Tenure Status, 2005
  • VCU SOM Spanish Surname Faculty by Department, 2005
    • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Spanish Surname, and Tenure Status, 2005
  • VCU SOM Asian Descent by Department, 2005
    • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Rank, Asian, and Tenure Status, 2005

Reports: FY 2004

• Report on Representation of Women and Black Faculty in the VCU School of Medicine, 1997-2003. Presented June 8, 2004 to the SOM Executive Committee of chairs and deans.
• Slide Presentation: Representation Data for Women and Black Faculty
• VCU SOM Women Faculty by Department
  • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Gender, Rank and Tenure Status
• VCU SOM Black Faculty by Department
  • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Ethnicity, Rank and Tenure Status

Reports: FY 2003

• Report on Representation of Women and Black Faculty in the VCU School of Medicine, 1997-2002. Presented June 11, 2003 to the SOM Executive Committee of chairs and deans.
• Slide Presentation: Representation Data for Women and Black Faculty

Reports: FY 2002

• Report on Representation of Women and Black Faculty in the VCU School of Medicine, 1997-2001. Presented May 8, 2002 to the SOM Executive Committee of chairs and deans.
• Slide Presentation: Representation Data for Women and Black Faculty
• VCU SOM Women Faculty by Department
  • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Gender, Rank and Tenure Status
• VCU SOM Black Faculty by Department
  • VCU Distribution of Ladder Ranked Faculty by Salary Group, Ethnicity, Rank and Tenure Status

Publications

The following articles may require subscriptions. Wherever possible, these are provided freely to the VCU community via the VCU LIbraries' proxy server. Visitors from outside VCU may need to check for local availability.

• Buckley LM, Sanders K, Shih M, Kallar S, Hampton C for the Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities. Obstacles to promotion? Values of women faculty and career success and recognition. Academic Medicine. 2000; 75:283-288.


• Buckley LM, Sanders K. Shih M, Hampton CL. Attitudes of clinical faculty about career progress, career success and recognition, and commitment to academic medicine: results of a survey. Archives of Internal Medicine. 2000; 160:2625-2629.

Presentations

• Buckley LM, Sanders KM, Hampton CL. Using a faculty survey to drive organizational change. AAMC WIM Small Group Discussion, October 30, 2000, Hyatt Regency, Chicago, Illinois.

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