To uphold the heritage, The Trust Fund sponsors the following programs:

The Boots Cooper, M.D., WMC’65 Scholarship: awarded to an outstanding female medical student who demonstrates financial need.
The Mary DeWitt Pettit Fellowship: awarded to a young female faculty member to aid in advancing her career. In 1978, the Trust Fund established the Mary DeWitt Pettit Fellowship, in honor of the former chairperson of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Through this generosity, a grant is awarded annually to a woman faculty member. The fellowship funds research or other special projects which enable the recipient to acquire the credentials to advance in academic rank. (View the guidelines [PDF, opens in new window].) (See list of winners.)
The WMC/MCP Phyllis Marciano, M.D., WMC’60 Woman in Medicine Award: given to a physician, scientist, or staff member, preferably at the Drexel University College of Medicine, to recognize her leadership, teaching of students, care of patients, and status as a role model for women in medicine. (See list of winners.)
The Barbara A. Carson, M.D., WMC’70 Scholarship: awarded for the first time for the 2007-2008 academic year, this scholarship is given to a female medical student who has demonstrated and maintained academic merit and demonstrated financial need.

Support for the Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine including a grant for their digitization project, making the Archives accessible to everyone (http://archives.drexelmed.edu/).
- The Archives and Special Collections on Women in Medicine is an internationally-recognized center for research on women in medicine. It is the official repository of the institution and contains records of enduring administrative, fiscal, legal or historical value. Records date from 1850 to the present and include department minutes, records and correspondence of the president, dean and faculty, college publications, student theses, alumnae/i records and obstetrical and medical case books.
- The Special Collections on Women in Medicine is the most comprehensive collection in North America on women physicians. It consists of the personal papers of women physicians, records of women’s hospitals throughout the local medical women’s organizations. The Special Collections is also the official home for the historical collection of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA), given to the institution in the late 1940’s by Bertha Van Hoosen, M.D., founder and first elected president of the Medical Women’s National Association (now known as AMWA).
Funding to the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program’s “Emerging Leaders in Academic Medicine” semiannual presentations. (http://www.drexelmed.edu/elam/home.html)
Support for the mission and programs of The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine. (http://www.fhwim.org/index.html)
Availability of low interest loans and scholarship support for our medical students.