Leadership development must become a routine, core component of medical education. This will enable the sea change required for leadership and management being viewed and valued within the medical profession.
There should be universal coverage with all trainees being exposed to leadership development at every level of their training.
Spiral or Ladder Curriculum, Tiered Approach or Multimodal Approach
Examples
- Structured workplace experiences
- Project work
- Action Learning
- Coaching and mentoring through NHS Leadership Academy (NHSLA)
- Multisource feedback – 360 NHSLA – self assessment and report. Further analysis and facilitated feedback session with an accredited NHSLA facilitator is also available to help understand and contextualise the report, as well as help prioritise further leadership development. This will be funded by the Deanery on application.
- Short courses, seminars, workshops
- Technology enhanced learning such as Simulation or Human Factors workshops
Other work-based examples
- Closer working with multi-professional Quality Improvement work – aligned to organisational objectives.
- Participation by RD’s in patient safety issues – Root Cause Analysis
- RD or manager buddy schemes
- RD attendance at Senior Team meetings – observer participation.
- Talent conversations and coaching. RD encouragement and promotion of leadership development – at all stages of their training. Helping RD’s to see leadership as integral to specialty training within their own specialty curriculum and as themselves as a clinician.
- Your Clinical Leadership Mentor can help support you with these.
Birmingham University CLM Research Report 2020