The impact of leadership development on doctors in training: the role of training in building understanding of leadership
Meyer, Edgar, Wang, J., Ashleigh, Melanie J. and Gilbert, Alexandra (2011) The impact of leadership development on doctors in training: the role of training in building understanding of leadership. (Submitted)
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Context and aim: there is a growing body of literature arguing for the need to engage doctors in leadership. Indeed, particular concerns are being voiced that leadership has not yet been a consistent part of the training and development of doctors during their training. Many authors have called for the need to address this. However, little empirical evidence exists about the effect of leadership development on trainee doctors’ understanding of leadership. The aim of this paper is to evidence the impact leadership development has on the understanding of doctors in training about leadership.
Methods: a survey to all doctors in training (Foundation year 1 (F1) – Specialist trainee 3+/Specialist Registrar (ST3+/SpR) in a large strategic health authority was undertaken to investigate their understanding of leadership. Using both descriptive and inferential statistics, data of 1253 respondents were analysed with a focus to establish the difference between those respondents who attended leadership development programmes and those who did not.
Results: findings evidenced a significant difference in the understanding of leadership in those respondents who undertook leadership development. Following a principle factor analysis, four main factors were extracted. Based on these four factors, respondents who did not undertake leadership development scored consistently, and significantly lower than those who participated in some form of leadership development.
Contributions: we provide substantial empirical evidence that leadership development has an impact on the understanding of leadership in trainee doctors irrespective of the stage in which they are at in their training. We propose that leadership development should be introduced as early as F1 and that the research tool used in this study provides a basis for an instrument that is able to assess the understanding of leadership
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSN: | 0308-0110 (print) 1365-2923 (electronic) |
| Subjects: | L Education > LC Special aspects of education R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Business and Law > Southampton Management School Faculty of Health Sciences Faculty of Medicine > Medical Education |
| ePrint ID: | 204155 |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/204155 |
| Deposited On: | 25 Nov 2011 08:51 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 12:57 |
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