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20 November 2011
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Welcome!

By Tom Turmezei

So here we finally are: the official opening of the FMLM Bookclub. Each month we will be asking one of our team (or a guest) to host an ongoing on-line review forum on a book related to the burgeoning world of Medical Leadership and Management. You can join in by contributing to the forum with your own thoughts and ideas, read along with us, or just follow us like a blog.

We welcome all levels of experience and expertise – and you can even have read the featured book already. We hope that you will make the most of the new Bookclub forum, review repository and précis library in order to introduce yourself to, interact with and stay abreast of the latest releases, as well as some older classics.

We’re opening in December with a review of Medical Leadership: from the dark side to centre stage by Peter Spurgeon, John Clark and Chris Ham, published by Radcliffe Publishing Ltd. and released on 22.7.11 (ISBN 978-1-84619-246-3). Join me, perhaps like many of you also a newcomer to this developing yet crucial facet of medical training and clinical practice, to find out more about where medical leadership is currently placed in the realm of ‘good doctoring’, what it means to become a successful medical leader and, hopefully, some hints on how to do it.

Towards the end of December, we will also be featuring an interview with one of the authors, Peter Spurgeon, who is Director of the Institute for Clinical Leadership at the University of Warwick Medical School. Take the chance to suggest your own questions that you’d like me to ask him by posing them through the forum.

We’ll be starting the review shortly. My gambit? It’s only 143 pages long and 5 of those are the index, so no excuses not to join in!

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Tom Turmezei

Tom completed his training in radiology with a musculoskeletal specialist interest in 2011, having worked as a Specialist Registrar in Norwich, Nottingham and Cambridge.  He then won a one year Evelyn Trust research fellowship to study imaging in hip osteoarthritis with the Cambridge Bone Research Group and is now in the second of a three-year Wellcome Trust research fellowship at the Department of Engineering in Cambridge, developing automated analysis of hip imaging data.  His long-term goal is to set up his own musculoskeletal imaging research group.  Cross-disciplinary research and training experiences at a number of hospitals have reinforced his belief that the NHS has much to learn from other professional cultures as well as those prospering within it.  

Tom is a medical writer, having co-authored previous editions of the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine and the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Specialties.  It was with this experience that he approached the FMLM with the concept of an online 'bookclub' to bring together ideas on leadership and management from diverse sources for the benefit of all those with a vested interest in the future of the NHS. Tom is now co-editor of the FMLM Bookclub (with Sam Byrne).

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