The BWPHC is a non-profit organization with three main missions:
To provide empowerment, leadership development, continued medical education, support and community for underrepresented women of color currently practicing in the field of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery (UPRS).
To increase the number of underrepresented women of color trainees entering fellowship training programs for UPRS and to ensure their successful attrition.
To provide UPRS care and education to women of color with pelvic floor disorders who have traditionally been medically underserved or have had no access to specialists in our field at all.
The Black Women's Pelvic Health Collective
Is a non-profit organization for underrepresented women of color UPRS specialists, trainees, and patients. The first mission of the organization is to effectively function as a supportive, cooperative, safe HAVEN and COMMUNITY for practicing underrepresented minority female UPRS specialists through programs such as mentorship, fellowship, continuing medical education, leadership development, and resources for clinical practice. The BWPHC's second mission which is to increase the number of underrepresented female minority trainees entering UPRS fellowship programs shall be operationalized with early exposure to the subspecialty to both gynecology and urology residents respectively in their early training years with clinical rotations supported by a robust mentorship program which will entail pairing these trainees with underrepresented UPRS specialists. Its third mission is to accomplish the goal of promoting regional UPRS specialists and the field to traditionally medically underserved female minorities through digital social media, entertaining educational videos, blogs, webinars, and live community events to raise awareness of female pelvic health and current treatments with the goal of raising their health literacy. Every activity and event that will be conducted by the BWPHC will be directed towards improving female pelvic health and wellness and increasing access to care to this significantly underserved female minority patient population.
PLEASE JOIN OUR TEAM
Racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States are a major public health issue. Among physicians in non surgical medical specialties, providers from minority communities are grossly underrepresented magnifying the racial and ethnic health disparities between physicians (primarily white and male) and the patient populations that they serve. This problem is drastically amplified in surgical subspecialties such as UPRS.
The declining numbers of female UPRS specialists from underrepresented minority communities coupled with poor to no access to UPRS care among racial and ethnic minority women, compounded by the alarming trend of reduced female pelvic health literacy means the BWPHC non-profit team NEEDS YOU ASAP to help to achieve its 3 important missions.
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