Professional Women's Leadership & Career
Development Institute & Professional Education

Curriculum Reform Medical School Curriculum The dynamic process of curriculum development is particularly important in our post Katrina environment. Undergraduate Medical Education Curriculum TUXCOE affiliates review the undergraduate medical education curriculum for the inclusion of Women’s Health in the Tulane University Health Sciences Center. Professional Training Women’s Health Track of Internal Medicine Residents This program provides Internal Medicine residents with the opportunity for a rotation in Women’s Health in our clinics.

Xavier Pharm.D Students

These Xavier students provide pharmaceutical advice to patients who want in-depth counseling in regards to their health and current medication. 

The TUXCOE Women’s Health Research Seminar Series

TUXCOE offers a monthly Women’s Health Seminar to students and staff at the Tulane University Health Science Center.

Breastfeeding and stress Seminars are regularly conducted at the Center.

Student Programs

TUXCOE Student Program

Goals

• Formalize and standardize the CWHEC Student Program, to become a
structured mentoring and leadership training program
• Assist CWHEC students to become productive leaders in their professional lives
• Serve as a clearing house for internship placements in other Agencies,
hospitals and clinics within the Greater New Orleans area

Objectives

• Establishing a series of professional development sessions that goes
beyond the students’ overall internship experience.
• Creating an internship environment that is empowering, and supports
skill-building.
• Allowing for active participation and creative independence in student
projects at all stages.
• Providing a structured multi-disciplinary and multi-generational mentoring
system among faculty, staff, and students.
• The student program at TUXCOE and CWHEC has a built-in multi disciplinary
multi-generational mentoring structure. The program spans all five cores
of TUXCOE which are:

Program Processes

Create professional development sessions based on student interest including (but not limited to) topics such as:

• Conduct professional development sessions 2-3 times per semester.
• Formalize student program by creating detailed a mentoring system
• Developing listserv of alumni and current students for office use
• Creating monthly student discussion forum
• Conduct staff training to serve as mentors/preceptors.
• Empower students by providing a favorable hands-on learning environment.

Like many students, Jessi Leavitt, an undergraduate volunteer (2004) from Tulane University,
contributes some of her volunteer time performing administrative support duties.

Some of the programs that were started as student ideas are Healthy Tales; an innovative health education method using narrative story telling, Bone health research; an epidemiological research study of bone mineral density in different racial/ethnic populations, Women’s health across the life-span; a community and clinical health service and educational model and a Breastfeeding support project.  All programs involve health education and community outreach, as well as coalition building, policy and advocacy.  The teamwork provides intra and inter-project exchange of ideas and expertise.  With a comprehensive trans-disciplinary approach to training in women’s health, CWHEC achieves the goal of being the birthplace of future women’s health leaders and researchers.

Students and Staff also regularly engage in “Pot Luck Lunches” to
socialize and further exchange ideas and concepts.

Please monitor this site for updates on these programs.