Leadership Can and Should Be Taught

Ciampa, Erin J.; Hunt, Aubrey; Dermody, Terence S.

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“…Leadership, although dependent to some degree on inherent traits, is largely taught. 21 Traits such as communication skills, project management, recruitment, professionalism, and coordination with peers are honed over years of repetition and training. 22 Medical schools have not historically taught leadership as a formalized curriculum, 23 nor have residencies emphasized leadership as part of an academic curriculum 24 that is secondary to the extensive clinical commitments necessary for high-quality residency training.…”

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Five Years In: The AAOS Resident Assembly, “Bidirectional Communication,” and Early Career Involvement in Orthopaedic Leadership

Fourman

Smith

Jensen

et al. 2022

J Am Acad Orthop Surg

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Established in 2014, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Resident Assembly (RA) has served as a mode of "bidirectional communication" between AAOS and a combined resident body. Training and education initiatives relevant to the current issues facing residency training can be passed up to and directly addressed by the leadership of AAOS, whereas AAOS recruitment and membership initiatives can be disseminated to the full resident body through the RA. Since its inception in 2014, the RA has grown markedly, with representation from most MD and DO residency programs in the United States and Canada. It also has included an increasing number of medical students from Orthopaedic Surgery Interest Groups to directly take part in RA activities. For the past half decade, the RA has served as a partner for the AAOS in addition to a valuable recruitment tool to engage the broadest diversity of potential orthopaedic leaders at their earliest stages of training. This work is a review of the development of the RA over its first half decade, as well as a discussion of its future goals in line with AAOS priorities. Before the establishment of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Resident Assembly (RA) in 2014, 1 resident avenues for participation in orthopaedic leadership on the national level were limited. A survey of societal resident leadership opportunities by Dy et al 2 reported that as of 2011 only 5 of 20 national orthopaedic societies permitted resident committee membership. Although this paucity did not fully preclude societal participation, it did limit the opportunities for leadership training during the most formative period of an orthopaedic surgeon's career. The AAOS at that time offered resident opportunities, but participation was limited and decentralized. 1 The Resident Liaison program was developed to permit easy dissemination of AAOS communications to individual residency programs and as such was more of a one-way communication apparatus, with minimal opportunity for resident-produced work. The Committee Appointment Program provided an opportunity for a single resident to participate on certain AAOS committees. However, resident participation

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Five Years In: The AAOS Resident Assembly, “Bidirectional Communication,” and Early Career Involvement in Orthopaedic Leadership

Fourman

Smith

Jensen

et al. 2022

J Am Acad Orthop Surg

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“…One central question is are leaders made or born? Much of the literature seems to indicate a leader can be groomed; that is, this stuff can be taught [1][2][3][4] ! However, in common everyday interactions, there seems to be some confusion, consternation, and presumption when it comes to the characteristics of a true leader.…”

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Meditations on Leadership

Zeki

2020

Journal of Investigative Medicine

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Development of a residency program in radiation oncology physics: an inverse planning approach

Khan

Dunscombe

2016

J Applied Clin Med Phys

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Over the last two decades, there has been a concerted effort in North America to organize medical physicists’ clinical training programs along more structured and formal lines. This effort has been prompted by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP) which has now accredited about 90 residency programs. Initially the accreditation focused on standardized and higher quality clinical physics training; the development of rounded professionals who can function at a high level in a multidisciplinary environment was recognized as a priority of a radiation oncology physics residency only lately. In this report, we identify and discuss the implementation of, and the essential components of, a radiation oncology physics residency designed to produce knowledgeable and effective clinical physicists for today's safety‐conscious and collaborative work environment. Our approach is that of inverse planning, by now familiar to all radiation oncology physicists, in which objectives and constraints are identified prior to the design of the program. Our inverse planning objectives not only include those associated with traditional residencies (i.e., clinical physics knowledge and critical clinical skills), but also encompass those other attributes essential for success in a modern radiation therapy clinic. These attributes include formal training in management skills and leadership, teaching and communication skills, and knowledge of error management techniques and patient safety. The constraints in our optimization exercise are associated with the limited duration of a residency and the training resources available. Without compromising the knowledge and skills needed for clinical tasks, we have successfully applied the model to the University of Calgary's two‐year residency program. The program requires 3840 hours of overall commitment from the trainee, of which 7%–10% is spent in obtaining formal training in nontechnical “soft skills”.PACS number(s): 01.40 Di, 01.40.gb, 87.10‐e

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Leadership Can and Should Be Taught

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Five Years In: The AAOS Resident Assembly, “Bidirectional Communication,” and Early Career Involvement in Orthopaedic Leadership

Five Years In: The AAOS Resident Assembly, “Bidirectional Communication,” and Early Career Involvement in Orthopaedic Leadership

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Development of a residency program in radiation oncology physics: an inverse planning approach

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