Identifying leadership in medical trainees: evaluation of a competency-based approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As medical professional roles diversify, it is essential to understand what makes effective medical leaders. This study develops and validates a medical leadership competency framework that can be used to develop and evaluate leaders across all levels of medical organisations.

Method

In Phase One, the authors derived desired leadership traits and behaviours in the medical context from a panel of subject matter experts (SMEs). Traits and behaviours were then combined into multifaceted competencies which were ranked and further refined through evaluation with additional SMEs. In Phase Two, the final seven competencies were evaluated with 181 medical trainees and 167 supervisors between 2017 and 2018 to determine the validity of rapid-form and long-form leadership as

SUBMITTER: Jones SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12038132 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature