title: Leadership development in UK medical training: pedagogical theory and practice.
abstract: PHENOMENON: The central role of clinical leadership in achieving the vision of quality and productivity could be attained by investing in its development in postgraduate medical education.
  
  
  METHODS
  A critical review of selected literature is presented.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The author identifies some of the main theoretical constructs related to leadership; the pedagogical underpinning of medical leadership programs; their learning objectives; and the mixture of methods, individual and collective, to achieve them. INSIGHTS: How to best develop leadership through medical education remains an open debate. Experiential learning, reflective practice, action learning, and mentoring could provide the foundations of leadership development. Application of the aforementioned should be cautious due to limitations of the concept of leadership as currently promoted and lack of robust evaluation methodologies.
authors.affiliation: a School of Psychiatry, London Learning , Education and Training Boards Shared Services , London , UK.
authors.forename: Stavros
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bekas
mesh_terms: D004501:Education, Medical / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D008611:Mentors; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: competencies; leadership; management; postgraduate; reflective