A In today’s more challenging environment, dentists are realizing that their leadership skills— or lack thereof—can have a profound effect on practice success. Learning how to lead a practice team more effectively deserves to be an educational priority throughout every dentist’s career. It is vital to a practice’s health as a business, and methodologies evolve constantly. However, there are cer...

quantum organizations are referred where stakeholders know how to access the infinite potential of the quantum field. viewing healthcare organizations from perspective of quantum theory suggest new approaches into management techniques for effective and efficient delivery of healthcare services. this research is aimed to determine the quantum skills, quantum leadership characteristics and funct...

PURPOSE Despite dramatic increases in female learners and junior faculty, a significant gap remains in female leadership in academic medicine. To assess challenges and obstacles encountered, strategies for academic success, and lessons learned for leadership development, the authors conducted an in-depth study of women full professors. METHOD The authors used a qualitative oral history approa...

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...

BACKGROUND Women continue to be underrepresented in top leadership roles in academic medicine. Leadership training programs for women are designed to enhance women's leadership skills and confidence and increase overall leadership diversity. The authors present a description and evaluation of a longitudinal, cohort-based, experiential leadership program for women faculty at the Johns Hopkins Un...

ôbjective: âpproximately 66-80%of graduate students experience statistics anxiety and some researchers propose that many students identify statistics courses as the most anxiety-inducing courses in their academic curriculums. âs such, it is likely that statistics anxiety is, in part, responsible for many students delaying enrollment in these courses for as long as possible. this paper proposes ...

Correlates of stress-related growth and the effectiveness of a resilience intervention to enhance stress-related growth were examined. College students were randomly assigned to intervention (n = 31) and waiting list control (n = 33) groups. The intervention group received the psychoeducational intervention, Transforming Lives Through Resilience Education, in four weekly 2-hour sessions. Measur...

BACKGROUND The way in which leadership is experienced in different socioeconomic strata is of interest per se, as well as how it relates to employee mental health. METHODS Three waves of SLOSH (Swedish Longitudinal Occupational Survey of Health, a questionnaire survey on a sample of the Swedish working population) were used, 2006, 2008 and 2010 (n = 5141). The leadership variables were: "Non-...

This study examined the impact of media (face-to-face versus computer-mediated communication) on the process of leadership emergence by females and males. Specifically, we adapted the literature associated with impression management to investigate whether there are any differences in terms of two key impression management behaviorsself-promotion and supplicationbetween males and females who eme...