BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-09DOI: 10.1136/leader-2024-001016
Maximilian Kalyuzhnov, Olena Khlystova, Benjamin Laker
{"title":"Improvisation versus protocol: navigating the benefits and pitfalls of leadership jazz in healthcare settings.","authors":"Maximilian Kalyuzhnov, Olena Khlystova, Benjamin Laker","doi":"10.1136/leader-2024-001016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1136/leader-2024-001016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141564686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-02DOI: 10.1136/leader-2024-001010
Wen Wang, Jennifer Creese, Maria Karanika-Murray, Kevin Harris, Mark McCarthy, Christopher Leng, Christopher King
{"title":"Can compassionate leadership of senior hospital leaders help retain trainee doctors?","authors":"Wen Wang, Jennifer Creese, Maria Karanika-Murray, Kevin Harris, Mark McCarthy, Christopher Leng, Christopher King","doi":"10.1136/leader-2024-001010","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2024-001010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>High burnout and low retention rates among trainee doctors threaten the future viability of the UK medical workforce. This study empirically examined factors that can sustain trainee doctors.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A total of 323 trainee doctors from 25 National Health Service (NHS) Trusts in England and Wales completed an online survey on their training and employment experiences. A mixed method approach was employed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Structural equation modelling revealed that perceived compassionate leadership of hospital senior leaders (CLSL) (i.e., doctors in senior clinical and management positions, and senior managers) is directly and negatively associated with trainee doctors' burnout and intention to quit. We propose the associations may be indirectly strengthened through two mediating pathways: increased psychological contract fulfilment (PCF) of training/organisational support and reduced worry about the state of the NHS; however, only the former is supported. The model can explain a substantial 37% of the variance in reported burnout and 28% of intention to quit among trainee doctors. Being a Foundation Year (FY) trainee was significantly associated with poor PCF and burnout. Rich qualitative data further elaborated on their experiences in terms of senior leaders' awareness of their training/working experiences, listening to and acting on.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Active and demonstrable CLSL plays a vital role in trainee doctors' retention. It has both direct (through support) and indirect effects through improving trainee doctors' PCF to reduce burnout and intention to quit. This seems particularly valuable among FY doctors. Implications for the development and management of the medical workforce are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141471294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000851
Anthony J Riley, Sami A AlShammary, Yacoub Abuzied, Rasmieh Al-Amer, Ibrahim Bin-Hussain, Mesfer Alwaalah, Khalil Alshammari, Khalid I AlQumaizi
{"title":"Accelerated transformation programme for healthcare services: structure, function and the lessons learnt.","authors":"Anthony J Riley, Sami A AlShammary, Yacoub Abuzied, Rasmieh Al-Amer, Ibrahim Bin-Hussain, Mesfer Alwaalah, Khalil Alshammari, Khalid I AlQumaizi","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000851","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000851","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's (KSA) Ministry of Health's (MOH) healthcare transformation strategy aims to improve the quality of life of Saudi citizens in line with the 'Vision 2030<i>'</i> strategic objectives. The MOH is reforming the way healthcare will be managed in the future and is in the process of transferring healthcare service delivery responsibilities to clusters with ratified boards, while also moving the MOH from a provision of service model to a regulatory one. Several early pathfinding clusters were initiated in the eastern central and western regions. To ensure northern and southern regions were not left behind, the early innovation, while awaiting cluster nomination status, the northern and southern business units of Health Holding Company implemented the accelerated transformation programme (ATP). The ATP's remit was to develop capabilities and stimulate local engagement and ownership in the healthcare transformation process. This paper summarises the process of healthcare transformation undertaken in the northern and southern regions of KSA to date. It reviews the success in engaging with local healthcare professional communities in a standardised way and the learning from previous clusters, and elaborates on emerging implementation issues and how we may overcome them and introduce the lessons learnt from this journey.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"102-110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41157449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000763
Heli Parviainen, Juulia Kärki, Hanna Kosonen, Heli Halava
{"title":"Interest and competence in leadership and management among newly qualified specialists in Finland.","authors":"Heli Parviainen, Juulia Kärki, Hanna Kosonen, Heli Halava","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000763","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000763","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Medical faculties in Finland are responsible for the quality and content of continuous medical education programmes that also includes compulsory management studies (10 European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). The aim of this study is to evaluate medical specialists' experiences of the compulsory management studies and their attitudes towards leaders and managers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>The Universities of Turku and Tampere conducted a survey among doctors who completed their specialist training between 1 January 2016 and 1 January 2019. Of these doctors, 83 completed the survey (response rate 25%). The analysis was carried out using a cross-table, and in the visual analysis, a box plot has been used.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of the respondents, 38% were content with management and leadership studies, and they reported a particular need for improving skills in human resources management, healthcare economy, legislation, organisational management, and social and healthcare systems. Most respondents (83%) showed interest in future leadership roles.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The findings of this study show that newly qualified doctors do wish for added education and training in management and leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"167-170"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50163086","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2022-000724
William Rainey Johnson, Adam M Barelski, John G Blickle, Melanie L Wiseman, Joshua Hartzell
{"title":"Year in review: tips for effective graduate medical education programme leadership and management.","authors":"William Rainey Johnson, Adam M Barelski, John G Blickle, Melanie L Wiseman, Joshua Hartzell","doi":"10.1136/leader-2022-000724","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2022-000724","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Programme leaders in graduate medical education (GME) are responsible for the final stage of physician training, guiding the transition from supervised to independent practice. The influence of GME programme leaders extends beyond clinical practice, affecting trainees' relationship with and attitudes towards the healthcare system, future leadership behaviours, work-life prioritisations and professional identity among others. Given the potential magnitude of GME programme leaders' impact, both positive and negative, on GME trainees, we reflected on our shared leadership model that developed iteratively as a leadership team. We draw on our experiences to emphasise practical leadership behaviours and provide a summary of our observations, leading to nine recommendations for effective GME programme leadership and associated suggestions for implementation. We divide our recommendations into four leadership recommendations and five management recommendations. Throughout, we highlight the process of developing our shared leadership model, recognising that our process and observations will aid leadership teams in evaluating and, potentially, adapting our recommendations to meet their needs. We anticipate that leaders and leadership teams at every level will find value in our recommendations, even if our intended audience is GME leaders from chief residents to programme directors.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"93-98"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10183372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000874
Christopher Chew, Lawrence Lin, Nathan Vos, Jade Stevens, Emma Nyhof, Jason Goh
{"title":"Medical Specialty Interest Survey (MSIS): understanding career interest and specialty training in commencing Australian medical interns.","authors":"Christopher Chew, Lawrence Lin, Nathan Vos, Jade Stevens, Emma Nyhof, Jason Goh","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000874","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000874","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Aim: </strong>To assess specialisation interests in commencing interns and create a standardised survey to aid medical schools, supervisors and health services in quantifying, understanding and supporting medical career development to improve medical workforce planning.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>The Medical Specialty Interest Survey (MSIS) cross-sectional study was used. Incoming interns at a multisite tertiary hospital network in Melbourne, Australia rated their desire to pursue each specialty as a career using a Likert scale (1-5). 47 Medical Board of Australia Medical Specialties were included in the survey.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Completion rate was 123 of 124 (99.2%). The overall mean desirability was 2.62, suggesting on average more specialties were deemed less preferred. Critical care specialties were most popular, while surgical specialties had least interest. Gastroenterology and cardiology were most popular among internal medicine specialties. General practice had low correlation with other specialties (Pearson correlation mean R coefficient 0.106 compared with overall mean 0.208), suggesting interns interested in general practice exhibit less interest in other specialties, and interest in specialisation confers low interest in general practice. Psychiatry had the lowest mean R coefficient of 0.088.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The MSIS quantifies relative interest in 47 medical specialties and specialty interest correlations among final-year medical students/incoming interns. The MSIS may be a tool for medical schools, healthcare services and government agencies to better understand the career interest among medical students and pre-vocational doctors and therefore improve doctor retention and well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"134-141"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41118569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000872
Kate Rachel Millar, Christopher James, Hannah Headon, Azka Afzal, Joseph Lipton, Kirsten Armit, Judy McKimm
{"title":"Generic professional capabilities hub: developing leadership and management skills in trainees.","authors":"Kate Rachel Millar, Christopher James, Hannah Headon, Azka Afzal, Joseph Lipton, Kirsten Armit, Judy McKimm","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000872","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000872","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High quality leadership is key to delivering high standards of patient care. For many reasons, doctors in training are not currently well represented in leadership positions and struggle to access opportunities to develop these skills. As a key cohort within the medical workforce, using existing present opportunities within clinical training programmes would allow them to engage in leadership development and support them to lead on projects within their trusts and make sustainable changes within their own organisation.Within our anaesthetic department, we designed the Generic Professional Capabilities Hub (GPC hub)-a framework that aims to address some of the barriers to engagement in clinical leadership. Involvement in the GPC hub can be at three different levels, which allows for flexibility around other training needs. Currently, there are seven workstreams within the framework, with trainees being involved through symposia attendance, leading on projects linked to the hub or becoming a trainee workstream lead. We share our learning from setting up this framework, the benefits it brings to trainees and departments, initial evaluation results and our next steps which include regional roll out to four other anaesthetic departments.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"171-173"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71427625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000847
Elizabeth Clark, Christine Moghimi, Janelle Ealdama, Bojana Penjavic, Michael Scheraldi, Steven Vidal
{"title":"Understanding leadership development in DPT and MOT graduates at AdventHealth University via focus groups.","authors":"Elizabeth Clark, Christine Moghimi, Janelle Ealdama, Bojana Penjavic, Michael Scheraldi, Steven Vidal","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000847","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000847","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>While leadership knowledge, skills and behaviours develop during graduate education, faculty members engaged in curriculum design for doctor of physical therapy (DPT) and masters of occupational therapy (MOT) professionals want to understand how this occurs. The objective of this study was to understand what influenced the development of leadership in graduates.</p><p><strong>Patients and methods: </strong>A detailed narrative was created for virtual focus groups. Purposive sampling was used and eligible participants were emailed. Those who agreed to participate reviewed an institutional review board approved consent form and were sent a link through an online, recorded Microsoft Teams session. Forty-three DPT and MOT Class of 2022 Graduates were eligible for participation. Recordings were exported, deidentified and validated for transcript accuracy and then deleted. Transcripts were analysed for emerging themes via NVivo.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Ten graduates consented to participate. Saturation was reached during thematic analysis and three weighted themes emerged: leadership characteristics, on-campus curriculum and off-campus curriculum. Further data analysis revealed progression in leadership skill attainment over time and graduates attributed leadership development to the programme and aligned with current frameworks of multiprofessional/interprofessional education.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>These findings should be used to guide curriculum design for effective leadership development. These experiences align with the goal of advanced clinical practice of future healthcare leaders.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"159-161"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10433981","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000777
Hiyam M Nadel, Nour Al-Sultan, Alex Berger, Paula McCree, Gaurdia Banister, Olivia Jung
{"title":"Mission possible: open innovation in nursing and patient care services at Massachusetts General Hospital.","authors":"Hiyam M Nadel, Nour Al-Sultan, Alex Berger, Paula McCree, Gaurdia Banister, Olivia Jung","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000777","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>Although front-line nurses and staff are uniquely positioned to identify the inefficiencies and gaps in care delivery, formal processes are not always in place to hear from those very employees.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>We established a scalable process that embodies open innovation principles, to broaden and distribute the innovation locus.</p><p><strong>Setting: </strong>Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA.</p><p><strong>Particpitants: </strong>We invited 8800+ nurses and other direct caregivers to participate in organisational problem solving.</p><p><strong>Interventions: </strong>We solicited employees to (1) identify pain points and develop solutions and (2) crowd vote to indicate which ideas they want to see implemented.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>177 employees submitted 225 ideas, and 928 cast a vote. The 40 participants who submitted top-voted ideas were invited to develop a detailed implementation plan; of those, 27 submitted one. Four ideas emerged as winners.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Formulating a clear call for ideas, securing leadership buy-in and generating excitement about the process were essential to our efforts. Challenges associated with opening the innovation process involved managing a large volume of participants and submissions, and providing on-the-go training to nurses and staff who were not used to being asked to participate in organisational problem solving.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"162-166"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41215031","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
BMJ LeaderPub Date : 2024-07-01DOI: 10.1136/leader-2023-000773
Erin S Barry, Pim Teunissen, Lara Varpio
{"title":"Followership in interprofessional healthcare teams: a state-of-the-art narrative review.","authors":"Erin S Barry, Pim Teunissen, Lara Varpio","doi":"10.1136/leader-2023-000773","DOIUrl":"10.1136/leader-2023-000773","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>A state-of-the-art (SotA) literature review-a type of narrative review- was conducted to answer: What historical developments led to current conceptualisations of followership in interprofessional healthcare teams (IHTs)?</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>Working from a constructivist orientation, SotA literature reviews generate a chronological overview of how knowledge evolved and presents this summary in three parts: (1) this is where we are now, (2) this is how we got here and (3) this is where we should go next. Using the SotA six-stage methodology, a total of 48 articles focused on followership in IHTs were used in this study.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Articles about followership within IHTs first appeared in 1993. Until 2011, followership was framed as leader-centric; leaders used their position to influence followers to uphold their dictums. This perspective was challenged when scholars outside of healthcare emphasised the importance of team members for achieving goals, rejecting a myopic focus on physicians as leaders. Today, followership is an important focus of IHT research but two contradictory views are present: (1) followers are described as active team members in IHTs where shared leadership models prevail and (2) conceptually and practically, old ways of thinking about followership (ie, followers are passive team members) still occur. This incongruity has generated a variable set of qualities associated with good followership.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Leadership and followership are closely linked concepts. For leaders and followers in today's IHTs to flourish, the focus must be on followers being active members of the team instead of passive members. Since theories are increasingly encouraging distributed leadership, shared leadership and/or situational leadership, then we must understand the followership work that all team members need to harness. We need to be cognizant of team dynamics that work within different contexts and use leadership and followership conceptualisations that are congruent with those contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":36677,"journal":{"name":"BMJ Leader","volume":" ","pages":"127-133"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10210621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}