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UK medical students’ perceptions, attitudes, and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers

BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine UK medical students’ perceptions and attitudes and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted during the academic year 2015–2016. An online questionnaire was distributed to 2,349 final-year students from...

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Autores principales: Rouhani, Maral J, Burleigh, Eleanor J, Hobbis, Chloe, Dunford, Charlotte, Osman, Nadir I, Gan, Christine, Gibbons, Norma B, Ahmed, Hashim U, Miah, Saiful
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Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5818875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29497346
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S151436
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author Rouhani, Maral J
Burleigh, Eleanor J
Hobbis, Chloe
Dunford, Charlotte
Osman, Nadir I
Gan, Christine
Gibbons, Norma B
Ahmed, Hashim U
Miah, Saiful
author_facet Rouhani, Maral J
Burleigh, Eleanor J
Hobbis, Chloe
Dunford, Charlotte
Osman, Nadir I
Gan, Christine
Gibbons, Norma B
Ahmed, Hashim U
Miah, Saiful
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description BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine UK medical students’ perceptions and attitudes and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted during the academic year 2015–2016. An online questionnaire was distributed to 2,349 final-year students from 10 UK medical schools. Participants were asked to complete a 5-point Likert scale on their current perceptions, attitudes, and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers. They were also asked to self-rate their leadership competences set by the Medical Leadership Competency Framework and to rate the quality of management and leadership training they received from their medical school. RESULTS: In total, we received 114 complete responses. Only 7.9% of respondents were in agreement (strongly agree or agree) when asked whether they felt they were well informed about what a managerial position in medicine entails. When asked whether clinicians should influence managerial decisions within a clinical setting, 94.7% of respondents were in agreement with the statement. About 85% of respondents were in agreement that it is important for clinicians to have managerial or leadership responsibilities, with 63.2% of students in agreement that they would have liked more management or leadership training during medical school. Over half the respondents rated their management and leadership training they received during medical school as “very poor” or “poor” (54.4%). CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that UK medical students have an appetite for management and leadership training and appreciate its importance but feel that the training they are receiving is poor. This suggests that there is a gap between the demand for management and leadership training and the quality of training supplied by UK medical schools.
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spelling pubmed-58188752018-03-01 UK medical students’ perceptions, attitudes, and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers Rouhani, Maral J Burleigh, Eleanor J Hobbis, Chloe Dunford, Charlotte Osman, Nadir I Gan, Christine Gibbons, Norma B Ahmed, Hashim U Miah, Saiful Adv Med Educ Pract Original Research BACKGROUND: We aimed to determine UK medical students’ perceptions and attitudes and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted during the academic year 2015–2016. An online questionnaire was distributed to 2,349 final-year students from 10 UK medical schools. Participants were asked to complete a 5-point Likert scale on their current perceptions, attitudes, and interest toward medical leadership and clinician managers. They were also asked to self-rate their leadership competences set by the Medical Leadership Competency Framework and to rate the quality of management and leadership training they received from their medical school. RESULTS: In total, we received 114 complete responses. Only 7.9% of respondents were in agreement (strongly agree or agree) when asked whether they felt they were well informed about what a managerial position in medicine entails. When asked whether clinicians should influence managerial decisions within a clinical setting, 94.7% of respondents were in agreement with the statement. About 85% of respondents were in agreement that it is important for clinicians to have managerial or leadership responsibilities, with 63.2% of students in agreement that they would have liked more management or leadership training during medical school. Over half the respondents rated their management and leadership training they received during medical school as “very poor” or “poor” (54.4%). CONCLUSION: Our study suggests that UK medical students have an appetite for management and leadership training and appreciate its importance but feel that the training they are receiving is poor. This suggests that there is a gap between the demand for management and leadership training and the quality of training supplied by UK medical schools. Dove Medical Press 2018-02-16 /pmc/articles/PMC5818875/ /pubmed/29497346 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S151436 Text en © 2018 Rouhani et al. This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5818875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29497346
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/AMEP.S151436
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