Another study on leadership for doctors ( Wilkie, 2012) explains that leadership skills are as good as the core clinical skills needed for the physicians. The study on training for leadership ( Rughani et al., 2012) explains why the medical education must put focus on leadership training and its distinction from “managerialism.” Leadership is more on the individual context on how he/she influences and drives people to achieve the goals, whereas management is more from an organization context. Another study of medical leadership and the medical student ( O’Sullivan and McKimm, 2011) explains that leadership development is needed for doctors as a life-long learning process. Barnes et al.’s study ( 2020) study also explains that the junior doctors are not aware of the role of leadership in their clinical practice and also recommends focus on building leadership skills. The study on leadership training that was conducted on residents and faculty of otolaryngology in the USA ( Bent et al., 2017) explains that most of the residents are not exposed to leadership instruction and suggested the need for leadership training during residency. Finally, the article shares recommendations on the leadership training implementation across the career life cycle of doctors. The study has been conducted based on the current literature available on the leadership training for doctors along with the background of a doctor’s life in the context of leadership-related situations. The objective of this article is to highlight the need for leadership training for doctors as an essential skill not only for their career but for the patients and the health-care delivery system at large ( West et al., 2014 Ayeleke et al., 2018).
But the professional skills on the nonmedical side such as leadership, team building and interpersonal skills and communication have not been given due importance in India. Today, the doctors are exposed to both medical and the nonmedical skills. It starts at the education level and integrated longitudinally across the doctor’s career ( Till et al., 2020). But today medical institutions across the globe are incorporating other professional-related skills such as leadership in their curriculum to build effective leaders in the health-care system ( AMA, 2020).
Doctors were earlier taught and trained about the medical skills which are considered very important to succeed in their medical profession. The journey with regard to the management-related aspects of doctors has just begun in the past few years ( Spurgeon et al., 2011). The full terms of this licence maybe seen at Anyone may reproduce, distribute, translate and create derivative works of this article (for both commercial and non-commercial purposes), subject to full attribution to the original publication and authors. This article is published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) licence. Published in Vilakshan – XIMB Journal of Management.
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