Leading

Leading, part of the AAMC Successful Medical School Department Chair Series, is required reading for current and prospective medical school department chairs, deans and associate deans, and others who work with chairs.

 

In Leading, you discover:

Good practices for developing leadership competencies and executing your responsibilities and expectations as chair in an effective and successful manner
Differing expectations of deans; hospital and health system CEOs; faculty members
How to avoid the most common source of leadership failure in tackling adaptive challenges
Three critical characteristics of medical schools and academic health systems that you should embrace – and that have profound and important implications for being a department chair
Why the very notion of leadership must pivot away from leader-as-knower and leader-as-provider, to leader-as-inquirer, leader-as-listener, and leader-as-influencer
The challenges that chairs face leading from the“middle” in an industry in transition
Examples of approaches that medical schools have adopted in defining roles and responsibilities of basic science and clinical department chairs
Core characteristics of a successful department chair
How to evaluate a chair position that you may be considering
What issues to explore to be a well-informed candidate for a chair position
More than 23 questions you should get answers to when you meet with the dean
Advice for incumbent chairs, including a self-assessment worksheet and tools for self-reflection
And much, much more.