Join our community of FMLM Fellows.
We are always looking for people who are proud to be leadership pioneers to become a part of our group of Fellows, no matter your level of career or size of working team.
Add the Fellowship award to your accolades as a signpost that you are somebody people can come to for inspiration on your people-led, directional way of working and managing a team.
“Having been a medical leader for many years the FMLM Fellowship provided me with an opportunity to receive formal recognition of the work and outcome from all those years. This is a public statement of the value of clinical leadership as a career option.”
Dr Sarah Schofield, Founding Senior Fellow of FMLM
Why certification?
Patients and healthcare systems require the very best leaders. The Francis report on Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust and the Kirkup report on Morecambe Bay Foundation Trust emphasise the importance of setting standards and the professionalisation of leadership in driving the quality of healthcare in which doctors play a significant role.
The ability to benchmark medical leaders against national standards has never been more important given the increasing accountability and responsibility that doctors have with respect to the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare delivery and health advice, as well as safety and quality. Fellowship of the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) plays a key role in professionalising medical leadership by accrediting high performing and effective medical leaders against national Leadership and Management Standards for Medical Professionals.
Fellowship is available to FMLM members at five levels:
- Senior Fellowship
- Fellowship
- Associate Fellowship
- Collaborative Fellowship
- International Fellowship
The standalone International Fellowship category is for those doctors and dentists who do not have the national or regional opportunity to have their leadership knowledge recognised as a qualification.
Collaborative Fellowship is designed for healthcare leaders and managers, from any clinical or non-clinical discipline, who are not doctors or dentists.
The application pathway for our Collaborative Fellowship and International Fellowship is slightly different. Please get in touch with fellowship [at] fmlm [dot] ac [dot] uk to receive an application form.
View our step-by-step application guide and start your application today.
Benefits of fellowship
- External recognition of a high-level of leadership competence, meeting national standards for medical and dental professional in leadership roles.
- Supported evidence as a high performing medical leader for career progression, appraisal and revalidation - setting fellows apart from other medical leaders.
- Use of the nationally recognised post-nominals SFFMLM, FFMLM, AFFMLM.
- Eligibility to stand for representative roles including Chair and Regional Lead (Fellow and Senior Fellow only).
- Opportunity to join FMLM committees, participate in specialist consultations and events such as panel or chairing roles.
- Discounted rates for FMLM events, development programmes and conferences including the annual Leaders in Healthcare international conference.
- Formal certificate of fellowship for portfolio.
- Invitations to fellows mixers and receptions (NEW).
If you would like to get in touch and speak with previous people who have successfully achieved the Fellowship award, FMLM can make this happen.
Email fellowship [at] fmlm [dot] ac [dot] uk or fill out our short contact form and we will get in touch.
