Medical Leadership

Health Education North West has developed tools to help you focus and reflect on your leadership skills. The following leadership development tools were originally designed for use by trainees on the Medical Leadership Fellowship programme, but have since been developed for use by all trainees, GPs, Consultants, SASG and other post CCT doctors. If you are a trainee, you can use the tools and attach to your portfolio. Similarly, GPs, Consultants and other post CCT doctors can attach the tools to your revalidation portfolio.

The Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF) was jointly developed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement in conjunction with a wide range of stakeholders.

The MLCF describes the leadership competences that doctors need to become more actively involved in the planning, delivery and transformation of health services.

In January 2015 HENW reviewed the major Royal College Curriculla for Medical Leadership content.

We all need resilience in our clinical work. There is increasing evidence that this is something we can learn and develop. The links provided within this section provide a range of resources - books, YouTube vidoes and articles. They also include an on-line questionnaire that helps you assess your own resilience, and give you ideas on how to develop your resilience further.

We suggest you browse through the resources listed to see what appeals to you.

etft (Education & Training For Tomorrow) is a generic, open access, interactive e-learning platform which uses video clips and self-assessment to deliver training to trainers. 

A look at the emotional side of medicine—the shame, fear, anger, anxiety, empathy, and even love that affect patient care.

Dr Dennis S. Charney is Dean of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also a world expert in the neurobiology and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders, making fundamental contributions to the understanding of the causes of human anxiety, fear, and depression, and the discovery of new treatment for mood and anxiety disorders. 

Watch Dr Steve Peters talk about Optimising the Performance of the Human Mind at TedxYouth@Manchester in 2012 and listen to Dr Raj Persaud speaking with Steve at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Congress in Birmingham in 2015.

The ‘Foundation for Positive Mental Health’ has a series of twelve 15 minute audio tapes which are based on work  undertaken supporting elite athletes. You listen to each one every day for a week (or as close as you can manage).

Rainy Brain Sunny Brain is the work of Professor Elaine Fox in Oxford, and has lots of relevant themes. Her website enables you to self-assess your optimism score and various other things www.rainybrainsunnybrain.com