Leadership and management training for residents and fellows: a curriculum for future medical directors.

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CONTEXT:
Management of laboratories and pathology practices is increasingly complex. Residents and fellows in laboratory medicine and pathology need more structured curricula in leadership and management (L&M) training to function as medical and laboratory directors.

OBJECTIVE:
To define a curriculum that provides basic competency in L&M for residents and fellows in pathology.

DESIGN:
A year-long formal L&M course included didactic lectures, interactive sessions, case scenarios, team-building exercises, formal team presentations (capstone project), and precourse and postcourse assessment of L&M knowledge. The curriculum meets requirements of American College of Graduate Medical Education and supports goals for leadership training of the College of American Pathologists. Participants evaluated (5-point scale) the content and speakers of all sessions. Trainees were evaluated after considering postcourse examination results, quality of the capstone presentation, and a global assessment.

RESULTS:
The 5 non-capstone sessions received evaluation scores ranging from 4.4 (informatics) to 5 (L&M basics). Postcourse test scores showed significant improvement when compared with the pretest scores for the 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 trainee cohorts.

CONCLUSIONS:
Short-term results indicate that the course described improves trainee knowledge of L&M issues.

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Author information

Author/s: Hemmer, Patrick R (PR); Karon, Brad S (BS); Hernandez, James S (JS); Cuthbert, Carla (C); Fidler, Mary E (ME); Tazelaar, Henry D (HD);

Affiliation: Division of Anatomic Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn 55905, USA.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Archives of pathology & laboratory medicine (Arch Pathol Lab Med), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2007-Apr; vol 131 (issue 4) : pp 610-4

Dates: Created 2007/04/11; Completed 2007/07/12;

PMID: 17425393, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

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Curriculum
Education, Medical, Graduate - methods
Fellowships and Scholarships
Humans
Internship and Residency

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