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- Title
Current opportunities for the development of leadership skills for doctors.
- Authors
Kabir, Chindu; Potty, Anish; Sharma, Ritesh
- Abstract
The increasing demands on healthcare services throughout the world, compounded by a loss of initiative and power and increased control of healthcare policy by non-physicians, have highlighted the need for more leadership training for physicians, to enable them to provide guidance within their practices and the medical community. This article aims to highlight the current opportunities in leadership and management skills development, and to add to the argument for further integration of this into medical training. Organisations such as the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA) have partnered with the Kellogg Business School to provide a leadership course, and the establishment of forums such as the Emerging Leaders in Orthopaedics Forum have encouragedthe exchange of ideas and leadership support. In the UK, a shortage of trained medical leaders has also prompted the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement to develop a UK-wide medical management and leadership framework, the Enhancing Engagement in Medical Leadership project. Although there are still relatively few undergraduate and postgraduate medical courses that offer a combined MD and Masters in Business Administration (MBA), an increasing number of institutions are providing an MBA to physicians in the USA. Business schools in the UK could take advantage of their proximity to centres of medical excellence and foster programmes to cater to this new breed of medical practitioners.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; UNITED States; GENERAL practitioners; PHYSICIAN training; LEADERSHIP training; PROFESSIONAL standards; MEDICAL personnel; CAREER development; GREAT Britain. National Health Service. Institute for Innovation &; Improvement
- Publication
International Journal of Clinical Leadership, 2008, Vol 16, Issue 3, p115
- ISSN
1757-207X
- Publication type
Article