... empowered leaders. Originality/value A more individual-centric focus on clinical leadership development is advocated, offering an original leadership development framework to support leadership development and contributing to the wider literature on education. a compilation of attitudes, values...

...Alison Sheridan; Jane O'Sullivan Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate how close analysis of cultural narratives can be employed as effective pedagogical tools in the explication and critique of specific workplace issues relevant to health management education. Design/methodology/approach...

.... Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on experiences of international health and draws parallels with those of other international health students. The paper also discusses how studying international health may benefit future doctors and considers how medical education can take a more...

...Stephen Davies Purpose To examine the importance of appropriate education for health services managers and to identify what might be included in the curriculum for health services management education. Design/methodology/approach The paper approaches these two questions through an exploration...

.... In this paper, we review the literature dealing with educational and developmental needs of healthcare managers. Much of this literature is academic in nature and permits an interesting comparison to the perspective of management and executive practitioners. Emerging from the literature was a concern...

...John Edmonstone The education commissioning system established in the NHS in England in the mid‐1990s is facing a series of reviews. A major challenge which it faces is how integrated workforce planning is addressed. Newly‐emerging approaches to planning are reviewed and the nature of “integration...

.... Education Health care New Zealand Since the mid‐1980s New Zealand governments of both left and right wing persuasion (Labour and National) have fostered ideologically‐driven changes to a wide range of public services, including health. In the late 1980s the Gibbs report (1988) on the provision...

...Jane Wren; Barrie Craven Explores the extent to, and ways in which, doctors are prepared for their future role in management through the undergraduate medical curriculum. Surveys the colleges across the UK offering undergraduate medical education using both prospectuses and questionnaires...

...Karin Newman; Tanya Pyne The pre‐registration house officers′ year has a dual purpose. On the one hand, there is the basic service requirement for long hours of routine assistance to senior medical staff. On the other hand, there is the educational component of the job as seen in the GMC and post...

...Felix Vartanian Discusses the importance of continuing medical education (CME) as a key means of improving the effectiveness of health care. Notes that CME must be integral to the health system and be centrally placed within that system if it is to have the required impact. CME methodology needs...

... indicate that the course is a cost effective way of enabling consultants who so wish to improve their management expertise. © MCB UP Limited 1992 Education Management development Medical professions Training Survey of the Views of the First Managing Health Services Group of Hospital...

...Richard Lilford The issue of medical education and SIFTR (Special Incentive for Teaching and Research) within the framework of the internal market and the purchaser/ provider separation is discussed. It is proposed that medical education be treated in the same way as the rest of the NHS...

...John Horder This paper explains why there is a need in the UK for a national centre and regional network to support and stimulate more joint education for those professionals required to collaborate in primary health care. It describes an initiative which aims to answer this need. The Centre...