Are we growing leaders? Exploring leadership training in hospice and palliative medicine fellowship

Are we growing leaders? Exploring leadership training in hospice and palliative medicine fellowship
Journal of Pain & Symptom Management; by Lynn A Flint, Greg Wallingford, Paul Tatum, Julie Bruno, Helen Fernandez, Elise C Carey; 8/25
The purpose of this study was to characterize the current state of leadership curricula in HPM fellowships and understand which leadership topics fellowship program directors (PDs) consider to be most important to include in a leadership curriculum for fellows. Respondents rated leadership topics as important for training, yet many topics are not included in fellowship curricula. Six topic areas related to communication and self-management were rated as having great need or were included in existing curricula by more than 60% of respondents. PDs identified ten topics to be of great need for fellows, all but one of which were included in at least 40% of programs' curricula. Negotiation was the exception being included in only 20% of programs' curricula.