The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19
Background: Leadership training in medical school continues to grow. Little information exists to guide leadership program development. Concurrently, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a real-world crucible of leadership, allowing insight into qualities and characteristics medical students value. We ai...
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Background: Leadership training in medical school continues to grow. Little information exists to guide leadership program development. Concurrently, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a real-world crucible of leadership, allowing insight into qualities and characteristics medical students value. We aim to determine what students value in leadership during a pandemic and the implicit framework students use.
Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, qualitative study using a five-item novel survey instrument developed by a consensus group of experts from family medicine, leadership development, medical education, and survey research to elicit student perceptions of effective and ineffective leadership qualities and examples during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Michigan Medical School. We used thematic analysis to identify overarching themes to build a model of leadership integrated with existing theory.
Results: 162 students participated across all years of medical school. We identified themes of Communication, Other-Orientation, Personal Characteristics, Decisive Action, and Use of Information. These five themes were then built into the model of Pandemic Leadership within the context of complexity leadership theory and collective leadership theory. This model represents qualities and characteristics students value in good leaders during a crisis.
Conclusion: This study is unique in its focus on student perceptions of leadership qualities during a real-world laboratory for leadership. We hope that this information, along with the pandemic leadership model, can serve as the first step toward relevant leadership training programs in medical education. Leadership training programs in medical education would likely benefit from grounding in the student values identified by this study.
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| spelling | doaj.art-89dc4d38a5be4d9e98ef76ae92edbff82023-09-02T16:13:32ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghInternational Journal of Medical Students2076-63272022-01-019410.5195/ijms.2021.1001The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19Alec Bernard0Sarah C. Ortiz1Elizabeth Jones2Michael Heung3Timothy C. Guetterman4Nell Kirst5BS, MS, fourth-year medical student, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesBS, fourth-year medical student, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesMD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesMD, Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesPhD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Associate Director of the Mixed Methods Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United StatesMD, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Co-director of the Medical School Leadership Development Program, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI, United States Background: Leadership training in medical school continues to grow. Little information exists to guide leadership program development. Concurrently, the COVID-19 pandemic provides a real-world crucible of leadership, allowing insight into qualities and characteristics medical students value. We aim to determine what students value in leadership during a pandemic and the implicit framework students use. Methods: We conducted a cross-sectional, qualitative study using a five-item novel survey instrument developed by a consensus group of experts from family medicine, leadership development, medical education, and survey research to elicit student perceptions of effective and ineffective leadership qualities and examples during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of Michigan Medical School. We used thematic analysis to identify overarching themes to build a model of leadership integrated with existing theory. Results: 162 students participated across all years of medical school. We identified themes of Communication, Other-Orientation, Personal Characteristics, Decisive Action, and Use of Information. These five themes were then built into the model of Pandemic Leadership within the context of complexity leadership theory and collective leadership theory. This model represents qualities and characteristics students value in good leaders during a crisis. Conclusion: This study is unique in its focus on student perceptions of leadership qualities during a real-world laboratory for leadership. We hope that this information, along with the pandemic leadership model, can serve as the first step toward relevant leadership training programs in medical education. Leadership training programs in medical education would likely benefit from grounding in the student values identified by this study. https://ijms.info/IJMS/article/view/1001LeadershipMedical EducationPandemic |
| spellingShingle | Alec Bernard Sarah C. Ortiz Elizabeth Jones Michael Heung Timothy C. Guetterman Nell Kirst The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19 International Journal of Medical Students Leadership Medical Education Pandemic |
| title | The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19 |
| title_full | The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19 |
| title_fullStr | The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19 |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19 |
| title_short | The Pandemic Leadership Model: A Study of Medical Student Values During COVID-19 |
| title_sort | pandemic leadership model a study of medical student values during covid 19 |
| topic | Leadership Medical Education Pandemic |
| url | https://ijms.info/IJMS/article/view/1001 |
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