Leadership training with the Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management

Employing it can be hugely beneficial during a crisis such as intraoperative bleeding, cardiac arrest, when your trainee is about to transect the common bile duct or even, say, the decisive choices required in the early days of a pandemic. Amy Edmondson, a Harvard professor of leadership, has shown...

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Published inBulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Vol. 103; no. 2; pp. 76 - 80
Main Authors Munro, C, Chiu, AKC, Cull, F, Gatfield, S, Kanga, K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London BMJ Publishing Group LTD 01.03.2021
Subjects
Careers
Clinical outcomes
Decision making
Leadership
Medical personnel
Patients
Surgery
Teams
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Summary:Employing it can be hugely beneficial during a crisis such as intraoperative bleeding, cardiac arrest, when your trainee is about to transect the common bile duct or even, say, the decisive choices required in the early days of a pandemic. Amy Edmondson, a Harvard professor of leadership, has shown that by improving the ‘psychological safety’2, 3 of a workplace through Michael West’s principles of ‘compassionate leadership’,4 there is a perhaps paradoxical increase in incident reporting, which, if said incidents are addressed appropriately, leads to better patient outcomes. The Faculty of Medical Leadership and Management (FMLM) was established in 2011 with the primary objective of raising the standard of patient care by improving medical leadership.6 Each year, FMLM takes on a group of doctors in training at varying grades and from various specialties, with the purpose of teaching and building their leadership skills through a 12-month secondment with a wide range of organisations. Managing an on-call shift, independent ward rounds, and difficult conversations with patients and relatives are all part of normal life for a foundation doctor but the leadership skills to excel in these tasks were never a focus of undergraduate training.
ISSN:1473-6357
1478-7075
DOI:10.1308/rcsbull.2021.35