Dealing With Deans and Academic Medical Center Leadership

Mentorship in an academic medical center.

AAIM is the largest academically focused specialty organization representing departments of internal medicine at medical schools and teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada. As a consortium of five organizations, AAIM represents department chairs and chiefs; clerkship, residency, and fellowship program directors; division chiefs; and academic and business administrators as well as ot...

Managerial Leadership Styles of Deans in Indonesian Universities

Indonesian higher education has experienced significant changes over the last decade. In 1999, the government published an overall strategy for decentralisation and enhancement of local autonomy in many sectors, including (higher) education. Indonesian higher education reforms have forced universities to restructure their internal university governance to become more entrepreneurial. These new ...

Expanded community health center--academic medical center partnerships.

Failure by deans of academic medical centers to disclose outside income.

T ransparency of faculty-compensated outside activities is vital for maintaining the public’s trust. Many medical schools have recently required public disclosure of their faculties’ compensated outside activities. We evaluated the accuracy of the disclosure of US medical school deans who served as directors of for-profit companies in 2009 because we could independently verify the compensated o...

Realizing the vision of leadership development in an academic health center: the Woodruff Leadership Academy.

In 2001, senior administrators in Emory University's Woodruff Health Sciences Center (WHSC) designated leadership as the central element of a new strategic plan, believing that an academic health center (AHC) requires excellence in leadership at all organizational levels to carry out the tripartite mission of teaching, research, and patient care. Leadership development in academic medicine pres...