Medical students' leadership competence in health care: development of a self-assessment scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medical leadership plays an increasing role already in early career stages. Undergraduate medical students in the transition to postgraduate education feel not well prepared for their leadership roles. While leadership curricula have been developed, instruments for students' self-assessment of leadership competences as part of their professional development are still missing. The aim of our study was to develop a self-assessment scale for undergraduate medical students' leadership competences.

Methods

The medical leadership competence scale (MeLeCoS) for undergraduate medical students was developed in twelve steps. For item generation, we employed the Medical Leadership Competence Framework (MLCF), which is also used as a framework for many leadership curricula an

SUBMITTER: Ogurek B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11542227 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature