Have you ever wondered what healthcare leadership and management was like in another country? As medical leaders we can learn plenty from the established healthcare models in Australia, Singapore, Sweden, the United States and Scotland. Hold on just a minute; did I say Scotland?
There was plenty of debate at the Women Medical Leaders session at the 2013 FMLM conference, not least whether we all should have been meeting at all. Reflecting back, defining a group based on a characteristic, particularly gender, will always be contentious; a group of doctors with blue eyes would not expect to share common aims and goals, so why should having two X chromosomes be any different?