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Instructional Course

Instructional Course - Available with the Platinum and Silver packages or Individual Course Ticket

005IC - Advancing Gender Equity in Urology: Allyship for Men and Advocacy for Women

Friday, May 13, 2022

7:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Location: Room 211

Instructional Course Director(s)

Simone Thavaseelan, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Surgery
Brown University
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Akanksha Mehta, MD

Emory University School of Medicine

Instructional Course Faculty(s)

Mathew Don Sorensen, MD, MS, FACS

University of Washington School of Medicine
Nishant D. Patel, MD

MD
University of Virginia Health System
Maria Uloko, MD (she/her/hers)
Sam S. Chang, MD,MBA (he/him/his)

Patricia & Rodes Hart Chair of Urologic Surgery, Chief Surgical Officer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Learning Objectives:

Recognize how gender bias operates in medicine and urology specifically in terms of career success and advancement as well as ability to care for patients and work within health care systems at the individual and institutional levels.
Identify and mitigate macro and microaggressions in the workplace by practicing techniques to interrupt, validate and be an active bystander/ally.
Recognize intersectionality issues in gender equity.
Develop strategies for allyship, advocacy and practice.
Develop core competencies for both women and men to enact change in their sphere of influence on salary and compensation equity, personal and family leave practices, administrative structuring, workplace safety and speaking up, and promotion and advancement.a. Salary & Compensation Equity b. Personal & Family Leave Practices c. Administrative Structuring d. Workplace Safety & Speaking Up e. Promotion & Advancement

The goal is to have learners be able to discuss these issues with, and provide basic guidance to, more junior members of their practice (or residents/fellows/junior faculty if in an academic program) after completion of this session.