Leadership for All: An Internal Medicine Residency Leadership Development Program

Leadership for All: An Internal Medicine Residency Leadership Development Program.

BACKGROUND Developing effective leadership skills in physicians is critical for safe patient care. Few residency-based models of leadership training exist. OBJECTIVE We evaluated residents' readiness to engage in leadership training, feasibility of implementing training for all residents, and residents' acceptance of training. METHODS In its fourth year, the Leadership Development Program (...

Feasibility of an innovative third-year chief resident system: an internal medicine residency leadership study

INTRODUCTION The role of the internal medicine chief resident includes various administrative, academic, social, and educational responsibilities, fulfillment of which prepares residents for further leadership tasks. However, the chief resident position has historically only been held by a few residents. As fourth-year chief residents are becoming less common, we considered a new model for rota...

Leadership development for health for all.

A journey to leadership: designing a nursing leadership development program.

Nursing leadership development is important in today's changing health care climate. Nurse leaders affect staff satisfaction, patient outcomes, and the fiscal status of most health care organizations. This article delineates why leadership development is important to nursing, how to strengthen nursing leadership, how to design a methodology for building an internal nursing leadership developmen...

Designing a leadership development program for surgeons.

BACKGROUND Although numerous leadership development programs (LDPs) exist in health care, no programs have been specifically designed to meet the needs of surgeons. This study aimed to elicit practicing surgeons' motivations and desired goals for leadership training to design an evidence-based LDP in surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS At a large academic health center, we conducted semistructured...