The Academic Foundation Programme (AFP) provides many opportunities in clinical placements for foundation trainees to develop research, teaching and leadership skills.1 These AFP posts are integrated within Foundation Year training schemes and may be part of Foundation Year 1 (FY1) or Year 2 (FY2) rotations. The generic academic skills are developed in addition to competencies within the core F...

This paper discusses the phenomenon of academic entrepreneurship and its significance to university education, societal development and economic development. It analyzes and presents academic entrepreneurship as a leadership process of creating value through acts of organizational creation, renewal or innovation within or outside the university that results in research and technology commercial...

leadership and management canons [2, 7−9]. Authorities within these domains suggest that innovative research and scholarship requires a culture that values these pursuits [2, 9]. Importantly, institutions that are successful in producing exceptional academic scholarship align the culture of their organizations with these goals [7, 9]. For more than a decade, medicine has characterized the acade...

PURPOSE To develop and demonstrate the usefulness of quantitative methods for assessing retention and academic success of junior faculty in academic medicine. METHOD The authors created matched sets of participants and nonparticipants in a junior faculty development program based on hire date and academic series for newly hired assistant professors at the University of California, San Diego (...

Effective leadership is critical for optimizing cost, access, and quality in health care. Creating a pipeline of effective health care leaders requires developing leadership competencies that differ from the usual criteria of clinical and scientific excellence by which physicians have traditionally been promoted to leadership positions. Specific competencies that differentiate effective leaders...

in new organizational world, managenemt is the most effective factor; and its proper form is in collaboration with leadership. one of the leadership's theories-which is the most effective-is charismatic leadership theory, though hasn't gain proper attention. generally, charismatic leadership means creating a relationship which involves affecting and being affected without involvement ...

MF01/PCO2 Plus Postage. *Academic Achievement; Cognitive Processes; *Educational Environment; Effective Schools Research; Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; *Institutional Characteristics; Instructional Leadership; Outcomes of Education; *Partnerships in Education; *School Effectiveness; Teaching Methods This review provides an analysis of the key determinants of school effectiv...

This paper suggests that values, attitudes and behaviours are strongly culture specific. Therefore, it is contended that if culture exerts an influence in behaviours and attitudes of people it will be evident in the way leadership is perceived or traits of effective leadership is distinguished in organisations around the world. In the Western leadership literature, effective leadership appears ...

In response both to national pressures to reduce costs and improve health care access and outcomes and to local pressures to become a top-20 public research university, the University of Kentucky moved toward an integrated clinical enterprise, UK HealthCare, to create a common vision, shared goals, and an effective decision-making process. The leadership formed the vision and then embarked on a...

PURPOSE The primary aim of this paper is to conduct a thorough and systematic review of the empirical and practitioner research on executive, leadership and business coaching to assess the current empirical evidence for the effectiveness of coaching and the mechanisms underlying it. BACKGROUND Organisations are increasingly using business coaching as an intervention to improve the productivit...