The first steps on the path to medical leadership
I felt a subtle nervousness walking down the steps to the lecture theatre in UCL’s Cruciform building.
By Sumeet Hindocha
Blog
14 Feb 2017
Leadership is about people
What can we learn from leadership in the third sector? I was asked why I was doing a leadership and management fellowship and my short answer was to learn how to ‘get stuff done.’
By Ashling Lillis
Blog
10 Feb 2017
Imagine what healthcare would be like if we could help every doctor to be a better leader…
I had applied for the ADEPT fellowship to learn about management structures within the NHS to help me navigate services as an advocate for my patients and my specialty, following completion of...
By ruth.thornbury
Blog
27 Jan 2017
Clinicians and managers need a common language
Should I, shouldn’t I? That was the question running through my mind, as I debated with myself whether or not I wanted to extend my training by a year to take up a post as a National Medical Director...
By Elena Baker-Glenn
Blog
6 Jan 2017
Making the change
Today I will head into work at the venerable institution that is the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Just a few months ago I would have been rushing into work in a busy university hospital as a...
By Victoria Twigg
Blog
30 Dec 2016
Recruiting trainees for medical leadership projects – what I’ve learnt
I have been a member of the FMLM Trainee Steering Group since its inception in 2012, in the role of recruitment and engagement lead, and the past year has been a challenging, fascinating, and...
By Robin Som
Blog
21 Dec 2016
Sustainability in healthcare – what does it mean?
Sustainability in healthcare is an upcoming theme in healthcare leadership and management as the world realises that climate change is an enormous threat to population health...
By Jennifer Isherwood
Blog
21 Dec 2016
My first three months as an editorial registrar with The BMJ
My role as editorial registrar is 27 years old (slightly younger than I am), and I am its twelfth male incumbent. It is an apprenticeship in medical journalism, and involves healthy doses of the...
By Joseph Freer
Blog
20 Dec 2016
The opportunity cost game – signing up to become a clinical fellow
So this was a risk. Opportunity cost is always the name of the game, and it can be hard to assess prospectively. Accepting a place on the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme...
By Rebecca Fisher
Blog
7 Dec 2016
Learning the Marriott way
I tire of cynics across healthcare; they are almost a disease in their own right, gnawing away at the heart of many healthcare environments. Yet, as a coach in healthcare leadership, I have to pinch...
By Dave Thornton
Blog
25 Nov 2016
Leaders in Healthcare – all things Primary Care!
It was great to see such a vibrant primary care presence at Leaders in Healthcare 2016 conference this month.
By Jane Povey
Blog
25 Nov 2016
A walk on the enlightened side
I’ve been a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow nearly three months and I can honestly say it’s been one of the most thrilling periods of my 10+ year medical career to date.
By David Warriner
Blog
24 Nov 2016
Doctors without borders
If beginning a fellowship in leadership and management was deemed by some as ‘going to the dark side,’ then being seconded to Bupa – the only private healthcare organisation currently hosting fellows...
By Jemma Batte
Blog
28 Sep 2016
My journey from a demoralised junior doctor to an inspired one
I have officially changed. I didn’t notice it happen but when I look back at my National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow year at NICE I can see that my perspective...
By Jon Holley
Blog
23 Sep 2016
Listening to be heard - junior doctors putting forward the case for change
Junior doctors and senior medical leaders were brought together at an FMLM event, 'An open discussion with trainees'.
By Myra MALIK
Blog
15 Sep 2016
Leadership is not for the faint hearted
For the past year, I have been a National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow. It has been without doubt one of the most extraordinary years of my life.
By Judith Tweedie
Blog
11 Sep 2016
Lessons from the third sector
Macmillan Cancer Support is the first third sector organisation to join the National Medical Director’s Clinical Fellow Scheme and I was the first clinical fellow to be placed there.
By Berkin Hack
Blog
1 Sep 2016
The NHS needs us now more than ever
Gareth Hynes on what makes this an unprecedented time to be a junior doctor
By Gareth Hynes
Blog
9 Aug 2016
Foundation doctors leading the way to a no-blame culture
Lessons Learnt is the brainchild of the extremely innovative Dr Maria Ahmed. Now an academic clinical fellow in primary care, she was a foundation year doctor, like me, at the conception of her...
By Chelcie Jewitt
Blog
31 May 2016
What it means to be a Chief Medical Registrar. The power of small changes
“You need to get to the bottom of why they are so unhappy and start to cheer them up.” This was the debrief I was given when I was approached to take on the Chief Medical Registrar pilot scheme.
By Tahir Akbar
Blog
31 May 2016
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