Doctors who become chief executives are self-styled ‘keen amateurs’ and there is a need to provide more structured support to enable them to become skilled professionals. The new faculty of medical leadership and management could have an important...
This article in BMJ Careers calls for the role junior doctors play in driving forward change in the health service to be better understoon, appreciated and expanded.
On the surface this has been dealt with through the compulsory involvement of...
The report helpfully tackles the two subjects separately, but their distinction is worth exploring further; management is perhaps the more generic term, and an understanding of how this has changed may offer insights into the role and manner of...
This article published in BMJ details that good medical leadership is vital in delivering high-quality healthcare, and yet medical career progression has traditionally seen leadership lack credence in comparison with technical and academic ability...
Identifying and engaging the next generation of Emerging Health Leaders (EHLs) is a foremost challenge for the Canadian healthcare system. If intellectual capital is the currency of the 21st century, identifying and developing EHLs must be a...
A key product from the Enhancing Engagement in Medical Leadership project has been the development of a Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF). This document defines the skills and competences needed by doctors to engage...
The Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF) was jointly developed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in conjunction with a wide range of stakeholders. The MLCF describes the...
Engaging doctors: can doctors influence organisational performance? outlines how the medical engagement scale can measure and improve medical influence and the impact of good medical engagement on organisational performance.
This...
This report evaluates two reviews; one examining the experience in a number of countries of arrangements for medical leadership and the training and support provided to doctors in leadership roles and the second focusing on the literature...
The guidance in this document is based on the Medical Leadership Competency Framework. This document focuses specifically on the undergraduate curriculum and has been linked to the new version of Tomorrow’s Doctors, published in 2009 by the General...