“…4 Effective leadership is necessary to help organizations meet goals, streamline vision, and provide motivation and support to team members. 5 In an effort to emphasize the importance of leadership development, accrediting pharmacy bodies purposefully included such components within pharmacy education standards. The Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) Outcomes 2013 and the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have included components of leadership in the Personal and Professional Development and Practice Manager Domains, respectively, as core abilities of pharmacy graduates.…”
USF TCOP) simultaneously offered a Leader Academy program to its PLS students. Both programs utilized GiANT Worldwide programming but differed in meeting frequency, content focus, and participant diversity. A 17-question pre-and post-survey was developed from the Emotional Intelligence Leadership Inventory. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compare the cohorts. Results: Twenty-two respondents in the national cohort (66.7%) and 15 in the single institution cohort (100%) were included. There was more diversity in age, ethnicity and previous education in the national cohort. Statistically significant improvements were noted in almost all areas. The only decrease noted was the national cohort response to "I strive to improve myself". The overall change in mean response values was generally higher for the single institution cohort. Qualitative data supported these results and showed more notable references to emotional intelligence in the national cohorts (~50%) as compared to the single institution (<25%).
Conclusion:Study results suggest that participation in a longitudinal leadership development program, regardless of cohort format, leads to perceived participant improvement in three categories. However, perceived benefit within each of these categories may vary depending on the cohort. Future studies are needed to further evaluate specific leadership arenas and validate the leadership assessment tool.
“…4 Effective leadership is necessary to help organizations meet goals, streamline vision, and provide motivation and support to team members. 5 In an effort to emphasize the importance of leadership development, accrediting pharmacy bodies purposefully included such components within pharmacy education standards. The Center for the Advancement of Pharmacy Education (CAPE) Outcomes 2013 and the Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have included components of leadership in the Personal and Professional Development and Practice Manager Domains, respectively, as core abilities of pharmacy graduates.…”
USF TCOP) simultaneously offered a Leader Academy program to its PLS students. Both programs utilized GiANT Worldwide programming but differed in meeting frequency, content focus, and participant diversity. A 17-question pre-and post-survey was developed from the Emotional Intelligence Leadership Inventory. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to compare the cohorts. Results: Twenty-two respondents in the national cohort (66.7%) and 15 in the single institution cohort (100%) were included. There was more diversity in age, ethnicity and previous education in the national cohort. Statistically significant improvements were noted in almost all areas. The only decrease noted was the national cohort response to "I strive to improve myself". The overall change in mean response values was generally higher for the single institution cohort. Qualitative data supported these results and showed more notable references to emotional intelligence in the national cohorts (~50%) as compared to the single institution (<25%).
Conclusion:Study results suggest that participation in a longitudinal leadership development program, regardless of cohort format, leads to perceived participant improvement in three categories. However, perceived benefit within each of these categories may vary depending on the cohort. Future studies are needed to further evaluate specific leadership arenas and validate the leadership assessment tool.
“…Further, educators seem to relish the inclusion of self-awareness, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurialism, and professionalism [3][4][5] within the plan for the curriculum because it provides a safe vehicle for which to lay the foundation of discussing more interpersonal issues with students to help them develop holistically as people and contributing citizens and leaders. 2 Pharmacy preceptors who have hired recent PharmD graduates and seasoned practitioners comment enthusiastically about the greater need for programs to emphasize leadership attributes, and inculcate elements of innovative thinking and the entrepreneurial spirit into new pharmacy graduates.…”
Leadership could refer to holding official leadership positions or advocating for patients and the profession. Different pharmacy organizations recommend the inclusion of leadership development in pharmacy education and as such some pharmacy schools have introduced courses or various initiatives which support the development of leadership skills. In this commentary, we discuss means by which various pharmacy schools incorporate ways to develop leadership skills. This commentary also addresses the competencies used to assess leadership skills in pharmacy education.
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