34 research outputs found
Action learning and healthcare: affinities and challenges
Action learning has been used in healthcare settings to bring about changes to how services are delivered, to help individuals to develop their knowledge and skills, including leadership development, and to enable the development of collective abilities and communities of practice. It is evident that there are some positive elements in the healthcare environment that support the processes of action learning – what we might call affinities between the environment and these processes. However, those who have practised action learning in these environments also know that difficulties and disablers can arise, to derail or block the processes – what we might, perhaps optimistically, call challenges
Untangling approaches to management and leadership across systems of medical education
Aims: How future doctors might be educated and trained in order to meet the population and system needs
of countries is currently being debated. Incorporation of a broad range of capabilities, encompassed within
categories of management and, increasingly, leadership, form part of this discussion. The purpose of this paper
is to outline a framework by which countries’ progress in this area might be assessed and compared.
Methods: Key databases and journals related to this area were reviewed. From relevant articles potential factors
impacting on the incorporation of aspects of management and leadership within medical education and training
were identified. These factors were tested via an online survey during 2013 with six members of a European
Association of doctors who promote medical involvement in hospital management, including members
from countries less represented in the health management literature.
Results: A framework for analysing how management and leadership education is being approached within
different systems of healthcare is developed and presented.
Conclusions: More systematic work across a wider range of countries is needed if we are to have a better
understanding of how countries within and beyond Europe are approaching and progressing the education
of doctors in management and leadership.
Keywords: Medical education, Management, Leadership, Competency framework
Developing middle managers
BOTH THE NURSING strategy for the NHS in England (DoH 1999 ) and the NHS Plan (DoH 2000 ) identify the importance of clinical and managerial leadership to the success of the government's modernisation agenda