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IN THE NEWS:
Porn Wars Symposium
October 25th, 10am-4pm
Think porn is sexy? Join this free adult discussion. Lunch provided.
Presented by WFU Women's & Gender Studies.
Featured speakers are Professor and author Jane Caputi, from Florida Atlantic University, who will show her film The Pornography of Everyday Life as well as images of pornographic attacks on Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, Michelle Obama, and Sara Palin; Law Professor and author Ann Scales, from UNC-Chapel Hill, will speak on New Legal Remedies to the Harm of Pornography; and Matt Ezzell, of the Stop Porn Culture Movement, will speak on Masculinity and Pop Culture.
Sex[ism], Identity and Intimacy in a Pornographic Culture: A Powerful Multi-media Presentation
October 30th, 7-9pm (Anyone 18 or older is invited to this free event)
Presented by WFU Women's & Gender Studies.
Facilitated by Dr. Gail Dines, Professor of American Studies and Women’s Studies at Wheelock College and national leader of the Stop Porn Culture Movement. In her powerful multi-media presentation, Dr. Dines uses examples from pornography, magazines, television shows, and movies to explore how femininity and masculinity are shaped by consumer-based, image driven-culture, and the ways that public images spill over into our most private worlds.
The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women has posted on-line a summary of the 2008 ELAM Forum on "Building Diverse and Inclusive Communities in Academic Health Centers." The Forum focused on a wide range of issues involved in building diverse and inclusive communities including: organizational culture, considerations in conducting research in a multicultural setting, addressing racial and ethnic disparities and the role of the medical profession, and how to become a culturally competent academic health center.
http://www.drexelmed.edu/Portals/0/elam/ForumReports/2008%20Forum%20Report.pdf
CALL FOR ACTION
The October issue of Academic Medicine issue contains a call for papers related to the 100th anniversary of Abraham Flexner's groundbreaking study of American medical education, A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The Flexner Centenary provides a timely opportunity to look forward to the next 100 years, and a special collection of articles will be published in Academic Medicine early in 2010. Prospective authors are encouraged to submit manuscript proposals for this collection. Proposals should not exceed 500 words, and should be received by Thursday, January 15, 2009, addressed to the guest editor, Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, Indiana University School of Medicine, 702 North Barnhill Drive, Room 1053, Indianapolis, IN 46202, or to rbgunder@iupui.edu.
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation has announced a national competition for the Gold Professorship Program. The application deadline is December 30, 2008. The purpose of the Gold Professorship Program is to promote the importance of humanistic medicine and the values of professionalism in medical education. The goal of the award is to honor and support faculty at the Assistant or Associate Professor level who embody these attributes through clinical practice, teaching, and scholarship including research and curriculum development. Up to three (3) Gold Professorships will be announced and awarded in March, 2009
Med School Diversity Can Benefit Minority Care: Racial and ethnic diversity in U.S. medical schools improves education for white students and better prepares them to care for minority patients, a study found.
From Journal of Women’s Health Oct 2008:
From Academic Medicine Oct 2008
- From the Editor 891-892
Does the Consistent Application of Criteria for Faculty Promotion Lead to Fair Decisions? Steven L. Kanter, MD
- Interprofessional Education 934-940
Making Interprofessional Education Work: The Strategic Roles of the Academy Kendall Ho, MD; Sandra Jarvis-Selinger, PhD; Francine Borduas, MD; Blye Frank, PhD; Pippa Hall, MD, MEd; Richard Handfield-Jones, MD; David F. Hardwick, MD; Jocelyn Lockyer, PhD; Doug Sinclair, MD; Helen Novak Lauscher, PhD; Luke Ferdinands, MEd; Anna MacLeod, PhD; Marie-Anik Robitaille; Michel Rouleau, MD
- Faculty Issues 962-968
Faculty Performance Evaluation in Accredited U.S. Public Health Graduate Schools and Programs: A National Study Ronald W. Gimbel, PhD; David F. Cruess, PhD; Kenneth Schor, DO, MPH; Tomoko I. Hooper, MD, MPH; Galen L. Barbour, MD
Gender And Self-Confidence In Med Students: Females underestimate their abilities and males tend to overestimate theirs.
Position Announcements from ELAM
· Director, Division of Physiological and Pathological Sciences – Center for Scientific Review, NIH
· Director, Division of Translational Clinical Sciences – Center for Scientific Review , NIH
· Chair, Dept of Neurology – NYU SOM
· Chair, Dept of Pediatrics – Texas Tech U Health Science Center El Paso SOM
· Chair, Dept of Psychiatry – NYU SOM
· Dean, College of Dentistry – Ohio State U
· Dean, School of Dentistry – U Southern California |