Importance of Leadership in Medical Education

Leadership was an important aspect of medical education
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Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................5
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Introduction
According to Giri, Aylott and Kilner (2017),the delivery of safer and high-quality patient care
depends largely on excellent clinical leadership coupled with high-level knowledge, technical
and variety of non-technical skills and behaviours for ensuring effective working together of
teams. Ageing patient populations wanting active involvement in their healthcare decisions have
increased complexities in the effective delivery of healthcare. Human factors according to Boak
et al.(2015), impacting medical care and measures taken for comprehending, anticipating and
minimizing them, over the last decade has seen a significant growth thus, making evident that
strong leadership and effective team working has improved patient care. For analyzing the
system and transformational change within healthcare,medical leadership is essential besides
having necessary credibility in the medical leaders for steering experts for working on a common
goal. According to Longest (2017), in the clinical arena medical leadership is essential in the
three modes of care namely repetitive, constrained and unconstrained, each requiring different
approaches extending from reliable implementation of best practices to focus of choosing the
best treatment option and cultivating an environment fostering study and quick finding of
solutions. The key purpose of this report revolves around giving an account of an episode where
was an important aspect of medical education.
Body
Medical educators according to Andersson (2015),are involved in various activities such as
teaching, facilitating learning, designing and developing curriculum, assessment, evaluation and
teams, departments and programmes management.Leadership in some form, be it leading a
project team, providing aright learning environment on a ward or in clinic or leading the
development of a programme or curriculum,is required by all these activities.Leadership is often
associated with senior management (deans, principals or others) however, researchers argue
effective leaders to be peoples having followers, doingright things and achieving results, setting
examples, are visible and take responsibility. Therefore, leadership can be found across all
levels.Evidences from different sectors revealvitality of good leadership to ensure the success of
organizations. According to MacPhail, Young and Ibrahim (2015), thereis an increased
requirement of health professionals to engage in clinical leadership. Globally, doctors are
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