"You Are in Some Sort of Occupational Adolescence": An Exploratory Study to Understand Knowledge, Skills, and Experiences of CanMEDS Leader Role in Psychiatry

Overview

Journal Acad Psychiatry

Publisher Springer

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2019 Dec 22

PMID 31863412

Authors

Anupam Thakur

Sanjeev Sockalingam

Thepikaa Varatharajan

Sophie Soklaridis

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Abstract

Objective: The study explored knowledge, attitude, and practices of Canadian Medical Education Directions for Specialists (CanMEDS) "'Leader" role in faculty psychiatrists in a university setting.

Methods: This is a qualitative study using a thematic analysis approach. Participants were identified by purposive, convenience, and snowball sampling. Telephone interviews were conducted to explore participants' perceptions of leadership. Qualitative analysis was carried out using a constant comparative analysis approach to identify themes across the interview data. Data was transcribed and coded into themes and categories to form an analysis of physicians' knowledge, attitude, and practices of the CanMEDS "Leader" role.

Results: Twenty-eight faculty psychiatrists participated in the study. The following themes and subthemes emerged from analysis: (a) characteristics of leadership and lack of clarity regarding CanMEDS "Leader" role (subthemes: differences between manager and leader, lack of specificity and practicality, relevance to practice) and (b) the meaning of leadership (subthemes: "positional leadership" and "everyday leadership," physician as team leader, developing leadership skills, getting beyond "occupational adolescence").

Conclusion: Participants perceived CanMEDS "Leader" role description as a high-level vision, which needs practice-oriented guidance. Participants conceptualized the dual nature of physician leadership at an individual level and at an organizational level. Leadership training is important both in residency as well as lifelong learning.

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