The Big GP Consultation – the next generation’s view for the future of General Practice.
Contributing authors from The Big GP Consultation Team: Dr Devina Maru, Dr Liam Loftus, Dr Claire Edwin, Dr Georgina Neve, Dr Rachel Weaver, Dr Rammina Yassaie, Dr Rob Cullum, Dr Sarah Walpole, Dr...
By claire Edwin
Blog
1 Nov 2022
What is team coaching - and how is it different from team facilitation?
Individual (1:1) coaching is one of the most evidence-based ways to develop and grow as a medical leader, but there is an emerging body of evidence for coaching to enable teams to develop and grow...
By Fiona Day
Blog
1 Apr 2022
Better decision-making for aspiring medical leaders
As a Cardiology trainee, I sat my specialty certificate exam, the European Examination in Core Cardiology (EECC)[1], last year. I followed my usual study technique, memorising facts, guidelines and...
By Yang Chen
Blog
18 Mar 2022
What are the different types of 1:1 coaching (executive, leadership, business, career, health, life...)
Coaching is one of the most evidence-based ways to develop your medical leadership skills and build your confidence and effectiveness over time. Coaches, like doctors, have certain core competencies...
By Fiona Day
Blog
18 Mar 2022
What is the difference between coaching and mentoring?
Coaching and mentoring are both confidential developmental processes between a Client and a qualified Coach or Mentor, which take place as a series of conversations. They may be short term...
By Fiona Day
Blog
3 Mar 2022
Mentoring: the key to growth and development
What is mentoring?
By Raihan Mohammed
Blog
25 Feb 2022
Gaining exposure to medical leadership and management through shadowing
Medical leadership and management (MLM) is increasingly considered an integral part of being a doctor, regardless of our career stage.
By Raihan Mohammed
Blog
26 Jan 2022
NHS Nightingale: a medical student’s perspective from the front line
There were moments when I would look up at the imposing iron-arched roof through my steamed-up visor, with the beeping of monitors in the background, and feel as though I was living through a horror...
By Charles Latchford
Blog
22 Jul 2020
Good night and good luck! – reflections on seven years with the Trainee Steering Group
The Trainee Steering Group (TSG) was founded on 26 January 2012 – over seven years ago, which sounds like an awfully long time. These days, I struggle to remember what I had for breakfast, yet I do...
By Robin Som
Blog
2 Aug 2019
There's a lot we could learn from the Maître D’
Imagine that there is a restaurant you walk past every day on the way back home from work. Something about it piques your interest – the weekend is coming up, and you have friends from out of town...
By Robin Som
Blog
4 Feb 2019
Leadership - so what is it anyway?
As a former National Medical Director’s clinical fellow and demitting chair of the FMLM Trainee Steering Group (TSG), I am sure I am meant to know the answer to the question in the title. In...
By Judith Tweedie
Blog
22 Jan 2018
Keeping a wedge in the door to allow access
I’ve just returned from the Leaders in Healthcare conference 2017, and have spent the last couple of days hearing about the amazing achievements of colleagues who have moved mountains while doing...
By Katie Wallace
Blog
13 Nov 2017
Want to improve the NHS? Just ask a junior doctor
The junior doctor years are a vital juncture in the professional and personal development of any clinician. These years determine who these individuals will be, as professionals, consultants,...
By Judith Tweedie
Blog
16 Oct 2017
Gemba
I’ve learnt a new language this month. I’ve sat in countless high level meetings, and have just realised that I can now navigate discussions about strategy, forward views and corporate governance.
By Iona Thorne
Blog
5 Oct 2017
A harsh spotlight on the undergraduate curriculum
There was a moment last week, while masquerading as the Finance Director of a beleaguered and fictional (but certainly realistic) Foundation Trust, that my lack of knowledge about NHS governance...
By Lewis Peake
Blog
14 Sep 2017
What's the point in that?
When describing my ‘out-of-programme’ (OOPE) year as a leadership fellow on the future leaders programme to a clinical colleague, I was met with the response “what’s the point in that?”
By James Houston
Blog
6 Jul 2017
FMLM MSG Society of the Semester – April 2017
Birmingham Medical Leadership Society (BMLS)
By Jessica Court
Blog
26 Apr 2017
Don’t forget the students - we are the future of the NHS after all
As the importance of medical leadership continues to be embraced across the Health Service, it’s important to ensure that the pathways of medical development reflect this.
By Elizabeth Oke
Blog
20 Apr 2017
An update from the Medical Student Group
Sorry we’ve been keeping quiet lately – but exams are over – so it’s time for an update on our hard work over the year and to hear how you can get involved in our exciting future!
By Maria Goryaeva
Blog
20 Apr 2017
Resilience: maybe it isn't all bad?
The very word 'resilience' is enough to make me feel defensive, as it seems to be the latest fad to fix the morale of doctors-in-training.
By Arrianne Laws
Blog
27 Mar 2017
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