#leadership

Aug 10, 2018
4 min

Leadership is not a box to be ticked – Dr Emma Coombe

Leadership is not a box to be ticked by Dr Emma Coombe If you’re reading this blog, you probably already realise the importance of clinical leadership for your current and future practice as a healthcare student or professional. However, those writing undergraduate curricula and postgraduate training programmes are only just catching up with this training need. This can leave you in the challenging position as a newly qualified clinician of having to ‘learn’ leadership in a v

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Jul 27, 2018
3 min

Developing future medical educators – Dr Sean Zhou

Developing future medical educators Dr Sean Zhou Can you remember an influential peer or near-peer teaching experience which helped you prepare for an exam or clinical work? Many students and foundation doctors play a key role in educating other students or peers, and the Junior Association for the Study of Medical Education (JASME) aims to build and connect these junior medical educators. It has been my pleasure to co-chair JASME, a special interest group of the Association

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Jun 3, 2018
3 min

10 Tips on Leading a Student Committee – Jahangir Alom

10 Tips on Leading a Student Committee by Jahangir (Jingy) Alom Get to know your team – Each individual ran for their position with a different manifesto. Find out what makes each committee member tick and what changes they really want to make; together you can have one strong mandate rather than a chaotic committee pursuing different directions. Own it! – People tend to put more effort into something they feel they own, so give ownership of your society to your committee. En

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May 4, 2018
3 min

Leadership at an early stage of training – Dr Cristina Costache

Leadership at an early stage of training Leadership is defined as an action or ability to lead, but the requirement for a specific age is never mentioned. How I came to stand for the role of chair of my Local Negotiating Committee is a different and long story, fit for a whole blog post, so I will only focus on the positives and challenges of being chair of the Local Negotiating Committee (LNC) of an NHS trust. As a woman, an EU doctor (that had only been in this country for

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Apr 12, 2018
3 min

Making the most of leadership opportunities – Dr Arrash Yassaee

Making the most of leadership opportunities by Dr Arrash Yassaee Since the publication of the Griffiths’ Report 35 years ago, clinical leadership has always been part of the NHS conversation. Recent, unprecedented resource pressures have made it an increasingly priceless commodity. In response, the healthcare system is recognising the value of developing good clinical leadership and there has never been an easier time for early career professionals to gain experience. But wit

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Mar 2, 2018
4 min

A nice quiet retirement? Leading 300000 European Junior Doctors – Dr Kitty Mohan

A nice quiet retirement? Leading 300000 European Junior Doctors “Sounds like quite a nice quiet ‘retirement’ job with lots of holidays”, one colleague remarked. To be honest, I understand why some of my colleagues were skeptical. A month after stepping down from two years as Co-chair of the Junior Doctors Committee (JDC) of the British Medical Association, I became UK Head of delegation for the European Junior Doctors Association (EJD) and was elected onto the EJD Board (or

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Aug 31, 2017
4 min

Healthcare Leadership outside the NHS – Tim Crocker-Buque

Healthcare Leadership outside the NHS by Tim Crocker-Buque There has been a greater focus on leadership within the training programmes for health workers in recent years, but all too often healthcare professionals find it difficult to access meaningful leadership experiences during training. The NHS, particularly secondary care services, remains extremely hierarchical and it can take many years for junior staff to be afforded opportunities to take up leadership positions with

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Jul 21, 2017
4 min

Trust your patients to be able to help you – Professor Andrew Rowland

Trust your patients to be able to help you by Professor Andrew Rowland How can you demonstrate true leadership when engaging with patients, members of the public and, in particular, children and young people? ‘Do, or do not. There is no try.’ (Master Yoda 896 BBY – 4 ABY) I have been concerned for sometime now that some professionals and some organisations believe that they are designing ‘things’, be those ‘things’ services, patient information, departments or initiatives, in

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Mar 10, 2017
4 min

Ten Tips for Medical Leaders – David Haslam

Ten Tips for Medical Leaders Professor David Haslam Being a medic is enough of a challenge in itself, and with the inevitable and never-ending onrush of change, increasing numbers of doctors will inevitably find themselves in unexpected leadership positions. Over and over again you will find yourself wondering, “How on earth did I end up doing this?” – a sentiment that I ponder almost daily. You can feel threatened, or you can feel stimulated and challenged. But you probably

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