WIM Fellowship

A transformational leadership experience across healthcare.

The Women in Medicine Fellowship is a selective, high-impact leadership experience designed for early and mid-career leaders across healthcare.

APplications for current session are closed.

Through immersive learning, executive coaching, strategic networking, and interdisciplinary community, participants strengthen the leadership capacity, visibility, and relationships that accelerate advancement and expand influence.

Program Overview

The Women in Medicine Fellowship is a high-impact leadership experience designed for early and mid-career women across healthcare. The program brings together physicians and leaders from clinical and non-clinical disciplines to strengthen leadership capacity and expand influence across the healthcare ecosystem.

This Fellowship is intentionally designed to address a critical gap in traditional leadership development. While many programs focus on building skills, this experience centers on what most often determines advancement: visibility, systems thinking, relationships, and sponsorship.

Participants will strengthen leadership communication, executive presence, and leadership identity while building and activating a strategic network of colleagues and allies. The curriculum emphasizes leading effectively across clinical and administrative partnerships and applying influence to advance careers, organizations, and health outcomes.

This is a selective, high-engagement program for leaders at a meaningful inflection point, ready to translate their capability into greater impact.

Help Us Launch This Fellowship

Every seat in this Fellowship is already subsidized. Participants invest just $2,750 for a leadership experience that costs us more than $10,000 each to deliver. But their experience is priceless.

Donations are what close that gap and keep this program within reach for the women who need it most. We’re seeking donors and partners who believe in building a lasting pipeline of women leading in healthcare. Your gift funds the coaching, faculty, and program design behind every seat.

Learn about ways to give here.

program leadership

Laurie Baedke FACHE FACMPE

Executive in Residence, Women in Medicine® | Founding Faculty Director, WIM Fellowship

Laurie is a nationally recognized healthcare leadership expert, executive coach, author, and speaker with deep expertise in healthcare leadership development. She has founded and led leadership programs for healthcare organizations, universities, associations, and executive audiences nationwide, and authored three books on healthcare leadership.

program schedule

In-Person Workshops

Kickoff Workshop
Thursday, September 24, 2026
Chicago, Illinois

Closing Workshop
Thursday, September 17, 2027
Chicago, Illinois

Virtual Teaching Sessions

6:00–8:00 PM ET

Virtual Teaching Sessions

November 10, 2026
January 12, 2027
March 9, 2027
May 11, 2027
July 13, 2027

Small Group Community Sessions

Monthly, one-hour virtual sessions held throughout the fellowship year.