Women in Cardiology

At Harbor-UCLA, we have recently established the Women in Cardiology program to help:

  • Create awareness around the barriers and challenges that women face in cardiology
  • Provide female fellows and residents interested in cardiology with academic and professional skills and mentorship that will help them succeed after training.
  • Advocate for female trainees within the Division and Department

Our Focus

Program Events

  • Quarterly events that focus on networking and skills development
  • Ongoing collaboration with other women in medicine groups on campus
  • Financial support to attend local conferences and symposiums that emphasize Women’s Cardiovascular Health
  • Research projects that encourage our female trainees to participate in and present at national conferences
  • Recruiting outside female speakers to present at Cardiology Grand Rounds

Program Details

Academic & Professional Skills Development

By helping our female trainees develop these necessary skills, we can empower them to overcome institutional and systemic barriers women face in advancing their careers.

  •  Salary negotiations and pay disparities
  •  Battling imposter syndrome
  •  Scholarship in academic medicine
  •  Sponsorship and mentorship
  •  Mock Interviews

Leadership

Our curriculum will emphasize and practice skills that will help trainees become successful leaders in the future.

  • Leadership-style seminar
  • Time management and saying no
  • EQ/IQ identification
  • Conflict resolution

Scholarship

We aim to provide a platform to promote and encourage academic endeavors for our female trainees.

  • Invite at least three female scholars to speak at our grand rounds every year
  • Financially support female trainees to go to regional and national conferences every year
  • Starting a research project

Advocacy

We want to encourage our trainees to bring awareness to topics that highlight the inequities and challenges women confront in medicine.

  • Gender disparities in patient outcomes
  • Family planning and infertility
  • Radiation safety
  • Sexual harassment
  • Gender gap in academics medicine and promotion