Leadership Observation and Feedback Tool: A Novel Instrument for Assessment of Clinical Leadership Skills.

ABSTRACT:

Background

While leadership training is increasingly incorporated into residency education, existing assessment tools to provide feedback on leadership skills are only applicable in limited contexts.

Objective

We developed an instrument, the Leadership Observation and Feedback Tool (LOFT), for assessing clinical leadership.

Methods

We used an iterative process to develop the tool, beginning with adapting the Leadership Practices Inventory to create an open-ended survey for identification of clinical leadership behaviors. We presented these to leadership experts who defined essential behaviors through a modified Delphi approach. In May 2014 we tested the resulting 29-item tool among residents in the internal medicine and pediatrics departments at 2 academic medical cen

SUBMITTER: Oza SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6194892 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature