BACKGROUND There is growing recognition of the importance of physician leadership in healthcare. At the same time, becoming an effective leader requires significant training. While educational opportunities for practicing physicians exist to develop their leadership skills, there is a paucity of leadership opportunities for post graduate trainees. In response to this gap, both the Royal College...

Given the challenges facing oral health providers as practitioners, community leaders, and educators, expanding dental curricula with an introductory course on leadership is timely and necessary. Such a course will sow the seeds of leadership by defining its importance in the dental profession and creating an understanding that the skills associated with leadership need to be developed over a l...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the strategies used by nurses to support the insertion of dialogic leadership in the hospital environment. METHODOLOGY Qualitative study, case study type. Twenty five nurses working in three hospitals in the city of Florianopolis, in the state of Santa Catarina (Brazil) participated in the study. Data were collected from May to December 2010. For data collection, semi-str...

Richard Halverson is an Assistant Professor in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work aims to bring the research methods and practices of the Learning Sciences to the world of educational leadership by exploring how to access, document and communicate the practical wisdom of school leaders. Halverson1s research develops concept...

BACKGROUND Effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. Although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors whi...

Citation: Robinson K, Shakeshaft C, Grogan M and Newcomb WS (2017) Necessary but Not Sufficient: The Continuing Inequality between Men and Women in Educational Leadership, Findings from the American Association of School Administrators Mid-Decade Survey. Front. Educ. 2:12. doi: 10.3389/feduc.2017.00012 necessary but not sufficient: The continuing inequality between Men and Women in educational ...

The purpose of this sheet is to describe the general requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree for students admitted to the School of Educational Policy and Leadership prior to Summer 2005. Additional details regarding the PhD are available in the EPL PhD Handbook (INSERT NEW URL) and in the Graduate School Handbook at http://www.gradsch.ohio-state.edu/Depo/PDF/Handbook/Handbook.pdf. All...