FMLM North and North West Medical Leadership School - a recent success!
What’s your leadership journey been like? What challenges and opportunities have you experienced? Who has inspired you? What’s going to influence your journey in the future?
These were some of the topics discussed at the first cobadged trainee event with the North West Medical Leadership School (NWMLS) and FMLM North of England (NoE). The NWMLS is an initiative of Health Education North West that aims to inspire and develop leadership skills in medical trainees. They run a series of events through the year aimed at whetting trainees’ appetites for medical leadership. FMLM were grateful for the opportunity to run one of these events alongside the NWML which took place on the evening of 16th April in Manchester.
Trainees were invited from the North of England Region to attend this event. Around 80 delegates welcomed the opportunity to be inspired by senior healthcare leaders from across the region.
Maxine Power introduced the evening by taking the trainees back to her early years as a Speech and Language Therapist and explaining her path to her current role as Director of Innovation and Improvement Science at Salford Royal Hospital and Managing Director of Haelo. She encouraged trainees to be themselves, to listen and seize every possible opportunity given to them, and not to be afraid to rock the boat.
Not all delegates were FMLM members, therefore Phil Ayres, FMLM North of England lead, told the audience all about the work the faculty is doing with particular attention to the development of the standards of medical leadership and explained why all doctors should join the faculty.
Dave Thornton, executive coach and top team facilitator, inspired the audience with his tales of leadership and made them contemplate the good and bad leadership they had experienced. He encouraged trainees to challenge the system and leaders when they feel leadership has failed.
The evening finished with trainees engaging in workshops facilitated by members of the FMLM North of England (NoE) steering group and evening speakers. The facilitators included Jacky Hayden (Dean of Postgraduate Medical Studies HENW and FMLM NoE deputy lead) , Umesh Prabhu (FMLM NoE Medical Director lead), Sarah Hull (FMLM NoE Independent Sector lead), Phil Ayres, Maxine Power and Leann Johnson (Northern National Medical Director's Clinical Fellow and FMLM NoE Honorary Secretary). The workshops explored what makes a good leader, what has influenced their leadership journey so far and what might influence it in the future.
All in all it was a fantastically enjoyable evening, with inspiring speakers and great enthusiasm from the leaders of the future! FMLM would like to thank the speakers for supporting this evening and the North West Medical Leadership School for the opportunity to cobadge the event, with particular thanks to Sam Aliman, NWMLS Chair and Jacky Hayden, Dean of Postgraduate Medical Studies, HENW.