{"id":2681,"date":"2016-05-02T14:30:43","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/?p=2681"},"modified":"2026-05-29T14:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T18:55:18","slug":"women-in-internal-medicine-talk-mentoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/2016\/05\/02\/women-in-internal-medicine-talk-mentoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Mentoring is Focus of &#8220;Women in Internal Medicine&#8221; Spring Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, the Department of Medicine launched an initiative aimed at supporting DOM&#8217;s women faculty members and trainees. Co-chaired by Division of Gastroenterology&#8217;s <strong>Jeanetta Frye, MD<\/strong>, and Anne Tuskey, MD, with additional leadership provided by DOM&#8217;s director of education Joy Hilton, the group &#8212; dubbed &#8220;Women in Internal Medicine&#8221; &#8212; sponsored a kick-off event in January that featured a panel discussion on work-life balance. More than 30 DOM women &#8212; faculty, fellows and residents &#8212; participated.<\/p>\n<p>The group&#8217;s second meeting was held April 29th and attracted a similar number of participants for an exploration of the topic of mentoring. <strong>Dorothe Bach<\/strong> (UVA Center for Teaching Excellence) presented, and <strong>Peggy Plews-Ogan, MD<\/strong> (Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative &amp; Hospital Medicine, and <strong>Susan Pollart, MD <\/strong>(SOM&#8217;s Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development), led the follow-up discussion.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead, the group plans to sponsor (in addition to regular meetings) a Grand Rounds in the upcoming year. It is also working to establish a grant to support women faculty members at the early stages of their research careers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2684\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2684\" class=\"wp-image-2684 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-3-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-3\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-3-300x275.jpg 300w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-3.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2684\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dorothe Bach of UVA&#8217;s Center for Teaching Excellence led discussion at the April meeting of Women in Internal Medicine.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2685 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-1-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-1-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/med.virginia.edu\/dom\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/210\/2016\/05\/Women-in-Medicine-April-2016-1.jpg 434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 265px) 100vw, 265px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall, the Department of Medicine launched an initiative aimed at supporting DOM&#8217;s women faculty members and trainees. 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