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Helene Wastl Medicine Mentoring Programme

Target group:

Female doctors in specialist training, female postdoctoral students, female participants in postgraduate programmes (PhDs) and female post-doctoral students in medicine and natural sciences

Length

  • 2 semesters
  • A total of 6 x 2 hours 1:1 mentoring meetings
  • Attendance of 5 workshops of 2 days each from the Helene-Wastl seminar programme
  • Introductory event 

 

Method

One-to-One Mentoring (one mentee and one mentor)

  • Accompanying further training programmes by qualified external female partners for the further development of career-relevant key competencies and soft skills
  • A sustainable and long-term network for the future: development and promotion of horizontal peer networks of mentees (= peer mentoring)
  • Regular network meetings: Exchange, reflection, (self-)empowerment

What is mentoring?

Mentoring is an instrument for systematic personal and personality development. It is a kind of sponsorship between an experienced female mentor and their learning mentee. The experienced female mentor supports her protégé with insider knowledge, shares her experience and helps with valuable contacts.

For this mentoring relationship to work, there must be complete trust between both parties. The discussions must be confidential!

Application form

Please send the complete application documents by 15 May 2025 at the latest to the following email addresshelenewastl-mentoring@i-med.ac.at

The application documents consist of:

Please note that admission to the program is only possible with sufficient knowledge of German, as the seminar program is only offered in German language.

Please take sufficient time to complete the application form. Your complete and meaningful information is an important basis for the selection and matching with your female mentor!

Start of the new programme in WS 2025/26

For further questions about the mentoring programme, please write to us at: helenewastl-mentoring@i-med.ac.at

Seminar program (offered only in German)

The Helene Wastl Medical Mentoring Program offers a comprehensive seminar program for career development, personal development and networking - participation in the lectures is mandatory.

Please note: A certificate of participation in the program can only be issued if 80% attendance requirement has been met.

WS 2025 und SS 2026

Introductory workshop
Date: 10 October 2025, 07:45 to 08:30 a.m.
 
Seminar 1: Rhetoric seminar
Date: 10/11 October 2025, 9 am - 4 pm; 2 days 
Female Future Talk on 10 October from 4-5 p.m.
 
Seminar 2: Voice and speech training
Date: 17 November 2025, 9 am - 4 pm; 1 day
 
Seminar 3: Strategic conversation management
Date: 14/15 January 2026, 9 am - 4 pm; 2 days 
Female Future Talk on 14 January from 4-5 p.m.
 
Short workshop: How do sex/gender & diversity come into research? 
Date: 19.02.2026, 08:30 - 12:30; 0.5 days
 
Seminar 4: Leadership in science
Date: 02/03/03/2026, 9 am - 4 pm; 2 days 
Female Future Talk on 02/03 from 4-5 pm
 
Seminar 5: Resilience in everyday working life and time management
Date: 14/15 April 2026, 9 am - 4 pm, 8:30 am - 12:30 pm; 1.5 days
 
The certificate will be awarded after the last seminar. 
Participants must fulfil an attendance requirement of 80% for 10 seminar days. 
If you have any questions, please contact: Helenewastl-mentoring@i-med.ac.at

Helene Wastl Club

Since 2006, the Helene Wastl Club has specifically promoted the networking of committed female doctors and scientists and now consists of almost 280 highly competent members.

In addition to comprehensive training and (specialist) expertise, personal contacts, proactive networking as well as positive role models are crucial for a successful scientific career in medicine. The Helene Wastl Club therefore focuses on the exchange of experiences and mutual support in peer mentoring, which builds relationships and facilitates access to career-promoting networks. The intensive examination of one's own role in the medical-scientific environment strengthens (self-)empowerment.

 

Network meeting Helene Wastl Club

Save the date: 24.11.2025 

 
Two seminars for interested members of the Helene Wastl Club will take place on 24.11.2025: 
  
Seminar 1: "The power of voice and body language - training and tips"
Seminar 2: ‘Think systemically - act effectively’ 
  
Duration: approx. 9 am - 4 or 5 pm 
 
  
Contents of Seminar 1: Improving your own speaking voice, using dynamics, rhythm and pausing techniques to set effective accents, the importance of non-verbal communication, more impact through presence, realising and using your own strengths. Further information can be found here: Seminar 1: "The power of voice and body language - training and tips" 
  
Contents of Seminar 2: This workshop is aimed at anyone who works with people, processes or organisations and would like to broaden their view of interrelationships and effective forces - regardless of formal management responsibility. Further information can be found here: Seminar 2 ‘Think systemically - act effectively’
 
 
 
Please register by specifying the desired seminar (1 or 2) by 24 October 2025 at the latest to: helenewastl-mentoring@i-med.ac.at
 
 

Helene Wastl – die Namensgeberin

Helene Wastl began studying medicine (one of 11 women) at the Innsbruck Faculty of Medicine in the winter semester of 1916/17. In 1922, she was the second woman from Austria to be awarded a doctorate in medicine with distinction and in 1930 she was authorised to teach physiology; her habilitation was the first for a woman at the Medical Faculty of Vienna. 

Helene Wastl was one of the pioneers of the medical sciences, one of the first women to pursue studies, a scientific career and international mobility. Her impressive career and, above all, her successful habilitation marked a milestone on the path to equal rights for women in the scientific system. To show appreciation for her achievements, she was chosen as the namesake and ‘symbolic mentor’ for the Innsbruck Medical Mentoring Programme. [More] 

Image source: Dr Susanne Lichtmannegger

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