How to fill in your Trainee Leadership Passport
This passport is designed for you to document and reflect on your learning and development opportunities and experiences in clinical leadership. There is a breadth of evidence that can be used to demonstrate the development of your skills and behaviours in this area.
The intention is that you use this as a contemporaneous resource to reflect on and correlate with your specialty curriculum. You may wish to use this as evidence of your leadership development at your annual appraisal/ARCP.
This passport is in three sections:
Section 1 – Record of your current leadership and management learning and development
Section 2 – Mapping your experiences to the GMC’s Generic Professional Capabilities and the FMLM Leadership and Management Standards For Medical Professionals
Section 3 – Personal development plan
Section 1 - Adding qualifications and experience
Leadership-relevant qualifications:
- This may be at a degree level, such as a Masters, diploma or PGCert in medical leadership, medical education or Quality Improvement.
- Similarly there are many professional qualifications, such as those delivered by the NHS Leadership Academy and the HFMA.
Membership of Leadership-relevant professional bodies
Examples of professional bodies you could put in this section could be:
- FMLM
- Medical education societies or organisations – ASME, AMEE
- Quality improvement-themed organisations – The Health Foundation, IHI
- Financial Organisations - Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)
Leadership roles
This section is designed for you to enter any leadership roles you have taken on. This may be at medical school, as part of a committee, or organising peer teaching. Equally, this maybe a role you have taken on as part of your clinical role – leading a ward round or organising the acute take.
It is important to reflect on your key learning from this. This does not need to be done as part of this document, but it could be summarised in a sentence (with a note to state where a further reflection could be found, perhaps within your specialty portfolio to avoid unnecessary duplication).
Or this may be an online programme such as the Leadership Academy’s Edward Jenner course, the IHI Quality improvement modules, the Royal Society of Medicine Mini-MBA
Publications, presentations and awards relevant to medical leadership and management
Remember this may also be local presentations based on service and quality improvement projects you have done.
Leadership development programmes, courses and elearning:
This can be courses attended as part of specialty training, events run regionally or nationally. Elearning can be through the Leadership Academies Edward Jenner programme, IHI Quality Improvement modules and many others.
*Head to the TSG webpage to find local opportunities for such courses in your region
Section 2 – Mapping your development to the GMC’s Generic Professional Capabilities and Standards
The GMC has developed GPCs – Generic Professional Capabilities, which are now forming the basis of all specialty curricula. In this section the GPCs relating to leadership have been cross referenced with the FMLM Leadership and Management Standards for Medical Professionals and the Healthcare Leadership Model. In this section you can comment on your leadership learning and development and map them to these frameworks to identify development both in areas of excellence and areas for improvement.
There are 13 GPCs:
- Demonstrating an understanding of why leadership and team working is important in a clinician’s role.
- Showing awareness of own leadership responsibilities as a clinician and why effective clinical leadership is central to safe and effective care.
- Demonstrating an understanding of a range of leadership principles, approaches and techniques and applies them in practice.
- Demonstrates appropriate leadership behaviour and an ability to adapt own leadership behaviour to improve engagement and outcomes.
- Appreciates own leadership style and its impact on others.
- Actively participates and contributes to the work and success of a team (appropriate followership).
- Thinks critically about decision making, reflects on decision-making process and explains those decisions to others in an honest and transparent way.
- Supervises, challenges, influences, appraises and mentors colleagues and peers to enhance performance and to support development.
- Critically appraises performance of colleagues, peers and systems and escalates concerns.
- Promotes and effectively participates in multidisciplinary and interprofessional team working.
- Appreciates the roles of all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Promotes a just, open and transparent culture.
- Promotes a culture of learning and academic and professional critical enquiry.
Further explanations of these can be found on the GMC website.
We encourage you to document learning events that represent how you meet these GPCs and any key learning points you gained.
Section 3 – Personal development plan
The final section of the passport is a PDP. After filling in sections 1 and 2 – what learning needs do you have regarding your leadership development and how will you achieve these?
These have been laid out in the short, middle and long-term, and then against the GPCs.
The final section offers a chance for you to insert feedback from a relevant tool (eg FMLM 360) and then a chance for your supervisor, coach or mentor to insert comments.
We hope you find this a useful document and we welcome any feedback you have.
The Leadership development passport is available for download
An example of a completed passport is also available from this page
