title: Leadership, management and teamwork learning through an extra-curricular project for medical students: descriptive study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Professionalism in medicine requires preparation for the globalized world. Our objective was to describe a project that introduces medical students to the community, hospital and laboratory activities, thereby allowing them to gain experience in people management, leadership and teamwork.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive study of the process applied at a philanthropic medical school in Curitiba, Paraná.
  
  
  METHODS
  Inclusion of management and leadership practices as part of the medical degree program.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The study groups consisted of fifteen students. After six months, any of the participants could be elected as a subcoordinator, with responsibility for managing tasks and representing the team in hospital departments and the community. The activities required increasing levels of responsibility. In medical schools, students' involvement in practical activities is often limited to observation. They are not required to take responsibilities or to interact with other students and stakeholders. However, they will become accountable, which thus has an adverse effect on all involved. The learning space described here aims to fill this gap by bringing students closer to the daily lives and experiences of healthcare professionals.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Being a physician requires not only management and leadership, but also transferrable competencies, communication and critical thinking. These attributes can be acquired through experience of teamwork, under qualified supervision from teaching staff. Students are thus expected to develop skills to deal with and resolve conflicts, learn to share leadership, prepare others to help and replace them, adopt an approach based on mutual responsibility and discuss their performance.
authors: Department of Research and Post-graduation, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors: Maria Lucia da Silva Germano
authors: ML
authors: Jorge
authors: Department of Research and Post-graduation, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors: Izabel Cristina Meister
authors: IC
authors: Coelho
authors: Instituto de Pesquisa Pelé Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors: Mariana Martins
authors: MM
authors: Paraizo
authors: Department of Research and Post-graduation, Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.
authors: Ester Fogel
authors: EF
authors: Paciornik
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004501:Education, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D010348:Patient Care Team; D010559:Personnel Management; D012577:Schools, Medical; D013337:Students, Medical