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Acupuncture Congress 2018
Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151
Page 73
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9
th
International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
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hysician leadership relates to developing emerging leaders
at all levels of health care organizations. Regardless of
the industry domain, the developmental nature of leadership
requires experiential learning that sensitizes the leader to the
different contexts they encounter. Leadership development
includes learning reflective practice, relationship building, and
forming a community of like-minded leaders. Learning how to
lead is an intricate and dynamic process, involving a readiness to
change roles, giving leadership to others, and a keen sensitivity
to awareness. Leadership involves a diversity of stakeholders in
whichthephysicanleaderinitiatestheconversations.Thisrequires
an open systems mindset and the ability to go beyond technical
specifics to influence a wider, inter-disciplinary team in health
care context. Teaching physicians reflective practice in this era of
distractability is one of the challenges of leadership development.
The best way to address the barrier of distractability is to improve
the meta-cognitive skills of the individual. Physicians may excel
at problem-solving in a specifc area of medicine, yet leadership
requires a very different way of thinking and learning. Leadership
development is a combination of experiential learning and
programmed learning, including the conceptual frameworks of
leadership together with a practice field to integrate and apply the
skills of leadership, such as self-discovery of leadership identity
and a movement towards mindfulness. Integral to this learning
is the support of other leaders in the community, who provide a
mixture of collegiality and shared learning that helps to sustain
the leader’s growth. The purpose of this paper is to suggest ways
of learning physician leadership in 2018.
pmacinty@fdu.eduPhysician leadership
Phyllis L MacIntyre
Fairleigh Dickinson University-Vancouver Campus, Canada
Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-003