Leadership Values in Academic Medicine

Physician and scientist leadership in academic medicine: strategic planning for a successful academic leadership career.

In medical school and during the residency and fellowship training periods, the focus of the educational process centers appropriately on health, illness, and the disease process. This is the time period where skills are developed and honed to provide exemplary care of the patient as well as the development of research interests and proficiency. Once the training period has been completed, the ...

Leadership in academic medicine: reflections from administrative exile.

Physicians are drawn into diverse leadership roles in academic medicine, but little in our education and training prepares us for these responsibilities. Fortunately, there is growing convergence in the literature on the attributes of successful leaders for knowledge-based organisations. Top-performing leaders seem to be self-effacing team-builders who eschew rapid-cycle strategic planning and ...

Exploring and understanding academic leadership in family medicine.

OBJECTIVE To explore how family physicians understand the concept of academic leadership. DESIGN Case study. SETTING Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Thirty family physician academic leaders. METHODS Focus groups and interviews were conducted with family physicians from a large multisite urban university who were identifie...

Leadership in academic medicine: capabilities and conditions for organizational success.

Personal values influencing career path in academic medicine

To pursue research, education, and health policy in one’s career, broadly defined as academic medicine, is one of the most important decisions of a trainee doctor’s career. Despite this, there is scant literature on which factors influence trainees’ choices towards clinical work or academic research. As the MD/PhD is a relatively young training path compared to the traditional PhD (Doctor of Ph...