Advancing Women’s Excellence in Family Medicine

Description

Advancing Women Excellence in Family Medicine: A Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders (AWE-FM) was co-created by an international steering committee comprising of diverse women leaders from various countries including Canada, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, and Thailand. Their collective expertise and cross-cultural perspectives enriched the course content, ensuring it addresses challenges and opportunities for emerging women leaders around the world. The committee's diversity fosters inclusivity, innovation, and a deeper understanding of leadership, benefitting participants with enhanced leadership skills tailored for an international audience.

Summary of Award Work

Advancing Women Excellence in Family Medicine: A Leadership Program for Emerging Leaders (AWE-FM) is a program for current or emerging early to mid-career women leaders in family medicine from around the world. The goal of the program is to strengthen the individual and collective leadership skills of early to mid-career family physician/primary care women leaders, enabling personal, team, organizational and system growth and excellence in leading primary health care. Course participants develop critical skills to support their leadership journey as they advance the discipline of family medicine, while working together to address the challenges unique to emerging women leaders.

About the Award

These awards, named after one of our own award-winning educators, were established in 2005 to recognize outstanding departmental faculty development programs leading to the enhancement of education, instruction, career development, professionalism, inter-professionalism, and/or health professional leadership within the Faculty of Medicine. There are three categories: Sustained Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Developer, Innovation in Program Development and Design, and Sustained Excellence in Teaching as a Faculty Developer.