Engaging medical students in leadership and quality improvement through a formal educational programme

Al-Talib, Mohammed; McLernon-Billows, Danny; Poore, Sophie; Bloomfield, David

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“… 22 23 Such an approach would also go a long way to facilitate impact and potentially larger scale organisational change by aiding continuation of the QI programme across the medical student training programme, embedding a process of continuous improvement within clinical practice, and enabling a sustained improvement. 20 24 …”

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Medical students as agents of change: a qualitative exploratory study

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BackgroundThere is evidence that medical students have the potential to actively initiate, lead and bring about change through quality improvement within healthcare organisations. For effective change to occur, it is important that students are introduced to, and exposed to the value and necessity of quality improvement early in their careers. The aim of this study was to explore the perspectives and experiences of medical students and their mentors after undertaking quality improvement projects within the healthcare setting, and if such practice-based experiences were an effective way of building improvement capacity and changing practice.MethodsA qualitative interpretive description methodology, using focus groups with medical students and semi-structured interviews with academic and clinical mentors following completion of students’ 4-week quality improvement projects was adopted.ResultsThe findings indicate that there are a range of facilitators and barriers to undertaking and completing quality improvement projects in the clinical setting, such as time-scales, differing perspectives, roles and responsibilities between students and multidisciplinary healthcare professionals.ConclusionsThis study has demonstrated that quality improvement experiential learning can develop knowledge and skills among medical students and transform attitudes towards quality improvement. Furthermore, it can also have a positive impact on clinical staff and healthcare organisations. Despite inherent challenges, undertaking quality improvement projects in clinical practice enhances knowledge, understanding and skills, and allows medical students to see themselves as important influencers of change as future doctors.

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“…Such projects have been shown to enhance the perception of leadership and management among students. 4 Furthermore, student prizes and awards can be used as incentives to trigger student interest in these projects. By the time the students graduate, they will be better prepared to get involved in MLM and transfer these skills to deliver safe and effective patient care.…”

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Improving perception, attitude and interest in medical leadership and management – a novel model proposed by medical students

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Suleman

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Leadership skills among medical interns - a cross sectional study in a medical college in South India

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Introduction: Leadership skills among medical students, plays an important role in making them competent and bringing success in their clinical practice. Physician’s professional activities require them to be good team leaders. But there is a leadership crisis among medical doctors in India and leadership skills within their curricula. Objectives: To assess the leadership skills among interns and identify possible influencing factors among them. Method: A cross sectional study was conducted among 110 interns in a medical college. Leadership skills were assessed using Modified Leadership Inventory for Medical Education (LIME). Unpaired t test for association of various factors with mean scores of leadership and Karl Pearson’s correlation coefficient for correlation between the scores of subcomponents of leadership skills were used. Results: Among the interns, 77.3% had a chance to be a leader during school/college days but only 20% had undergone leadership training. 87.3% of them had their leadership scores above average, suggesting good leadership skills. Interns who had been a leader in school/college, enrolled in Scouts/ Guides/ NCC and those who underwent leadership training had statistically significant higher mean scores. Majority had positive attitude towards leadership. There was a statistically significant, moderate correlation between the components of leadership skills.Conclusion: Participants had good leadership skills and there was significant association between former leadership experience and current leadership scores. Most of them had positive attitude towards leadership.

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Engaging medical students in leadership and quality improvement through a formal educational programme

Abstract: Background: Undergraduate medical training in medical leadership is limited, and there is a general negative perception among medical professionals towards leadership and management.

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Medical students as agents of change: a qualitative exploratory study

Medical students as agents of change: a qualitative exploratory study

Improving perception, attitude and interest in medical leadership and management – a novel model proposed by medical students

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Abstract: Background: Undergraduate medical training in medical leadership is limited, and there is a general negative perception among medical professionals towards leadership and management.

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Medical students as agents of change: a qualitative exploratory study

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Improving perception, attitude and interest in medical leadership and management &ndash; a novel model proposed by medical students

Leadership skills among medical interns - a cross sectional study in a medical college in South India

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