DOUBLE/JOINT DEGREE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT: STAGES AND ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP

Academic Leadership Development: A Case Study.

A dean at a private school of nursing implemented a leadership development program for early- to mid-career nursing faculty consisting of one 4-hour evening session per academic quarter for 7 quarters. Eight faculty members who had expressed interest in assuming a leadership role or been recommended by their supervisors as having strong leadership potential were invited to join. Program topics ...

Systematic Program Development Academic Staff

Leadership for All: An Internal Medicine Residency Leadership Development Program.

BACKGROUND Developing effective leadership skills in physicians is critical for safe patient care. Few residency-based models of leadership training exist. OBJECTIVE We evaluated residents' readiness to engage in leadership training, feasibility of implementing training for all residents, and residents' acceptance of training. METHODS In its fourth year, the Leadership Development Program (...

A journey to leadership: designing a nursing leadership development program.

Nursing leadership development is important in today's changing health care climate. Nurse leaders affect staff satisfaction, patient outcomes, and the fiscal status of most health care organizations. This article delineates why leadership development is important to nursing, how to strengthen nursing leadership, how to design a methodology for building an internal nursing leadership developmen...

Tracking the careers of academic general pediatric fellowship program graduates: academic productivity and leadership roles.

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the careers of graduates of academic general pediatric (AGP) fellowship programs. We evaluated the careers of 2 cohorts of AGP fellowship graduates: an early cohort trained during 1978 to 1988, and a later cohort trained during 1989 to 1999. METHODS We surveyed all known AGP fellowship graduates in both cohorts by using a confidential mailed survey. We assessed...