The following list is a sampling of leadership development programs
targeted at department chairs per se as well as other programs for
leaders in medicine, higher education, and health care.
Please note: Except for its own courses, the AAMC has not assessed
and does not endorse any of these programs.
Sponsor
|
Program
|
Description
|
Audience
|
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American
College of Physician Executives
|
Physicians in Management Seminar
|
Fundamentals in business and management
|
New physician managers
|
| |
Executive Leaders Program
|
Single-subject workshops on various management topics
|
Senior physician executives
|
|
American
Council on Education
|
Chairing the Academic Department
|
Development of the chair as an academic leader within the
department and within the institution as a whole
|
Department and division chairs, deans
|
|
Association of American
Medical Colleges
|
Executive Development Seminar for Associate Deans and Department
Chairs
|
Advancement of academic medical center leadership and managerial
capacity through the exploration of management topics, theories
and techniques
|
New department chairs and associate deans at medical schools
|
| |
Professional Development Seminar for Mid-Career Faculty
|
Provides participants with insights into the realities of
gaining a senior administrative position in academic medicine
|
Women associate or full professors
|
|
Center
for Creative Leadership
|
African-American Leadership Program
|
Leadership development experience with personal assessment
and feedback
|
Experienced African-American managers
|
| |
Women's Leadership Program
|
Focuses on issues and perceptions surrounding women's leadership
and work experiences
|
Women in middle- to senior-level management positions
|
| |
Leadership Development Program
|
Focuses on enhancing individual leadership capacities as
part of a self-awareness-based learning process
|
Experienced managers
|
|
Duke
University
|
Master of Health Sciences in Clinical Leadership Program
|
Prepares clinicians to become division chiefs, leaders of
healthcare systems, directors of health plans and heads of
large-group practices
|
Practicing health clinicians for all disciplines
|
|
Georgetown
University School of Business and School of Nursing and
Health Studies
|
Health Care Leadership Institute
|
Provides knowledge and skills needed for successful management
of complex organizations
|
Health care professionals responsible for the integration
of new programs and services.
|
|
Harvard
Business School
|
Leadership
|
Designed to give participants ideas, frameworks, and tools
to become better leaders
|
High-level executives
|
|
Harvard
Graduate School of Education
|
Institute for Management and Leadership Education
|
Designed to increase capacity to lead and manage change,
develop effective strategy, realign faculty and financial
resources, and evaluate impact of new initiatives
|
Experienced administrators
|
| |
Management Development Program
|
Provides innovative and practical ideas about critical management
issues
|
Mid-level professionals
|
| |
Institute for Educational Management
|
Examines critical leadership issues at colleges and universities
|
Senior-level administrators
|
|
Harvard
Kennedy School of Government
|
Skills for the New World of Heath Care
|
Provides participants with concepts and tools to influence
the evolution of the health care system
|
Physicians and non-physician leaders of health care organizations
|
|
Harvard
School of Public Health
|
Leadership Development for Physicians in AHCs
|
Designed to enhance leadership abilities and effectiveness
|
Physicians in administrative positions who are not chairs
of clinical departments
|
|
Harvard
School of Public Health
|
Leadership Development for Physicians in AHCs: Program for
Chiefs of Clinical Services
|
Designed to enhance leadership abilities and effectiveness
|
Chairs/chiefs of major clinical departments in teaching hospitals
|
|
Harvard
Schools of Medicine and Business and Harvard Medical International
|
Leaders in Medical Education
|
Educational leaders develop their own action plans for leading
and managing change to fulfill their institution's educational
mission
|
Leaders with major responsibilities for medical education
|
|
Higher
Education Resource Services
|
Management Institute for Women in Higher Education
|
Integrated series of five seminars in fiscal management,
managing in organizations, and professional development
|
Faculty women who are department chairs and women administrators
who have responsibility for curriculum and faculty development
|
|
Institute
for Women's Health at Drexel University College of Medicine
|
Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine
Program for Women (ELAM)
|
Focuses on preparing women faculty at AHCs for senior leadership
positions
|
Senior women faculty
|
|
Johns
Hopkins Schools of Medicine and Professional Studies in
Business & Education
|
MBA in Medical Services Management
|
Provides full range of business skills and knowledge needed
to move to the next level
|
Experienced health professionals
|
| |
Business of Medicine Graduate Certificate
|
In four courses, students learn leadership skills, the vocabulary,
and understand the techniques applied to business aspects
of medicine
|
Individuals with two- to five-years' health-related professional
post-baccalaureate experience
|
|
Levinson
Institute (in association with Harvard Medical School)
|
Leadership for Physician Executives
|
Applies fundamental principles about human behavior to leadership
development
|
Physician leaders
|
|
Medical
Group Management Association
|
Executive Education Seminar
|
Provides leadership strategies and skills to integrate governance,
strategic planning, business goal-setting, physician relations,
and overall practice management
|
Senior-level administrators in group practice management
settings
|
|
Simmons
Graduate School of Management Center for Gender in Organizations
|
Strategic Leadership for Women
|
Management program that shows how to work within one's organization
to develop a path for professional success
|
Women managers in any industry or sector
|
|
Stanford
Graduate School of Business
|
Executive Program
|
Intensive academic program in general management for experienced
business leaders
|
Seasoned, senior-level executives with company-wide and/or
country responsibilities or at the top level of a functional
unit
|
|
University
of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
|
Executive Development Program
|
Reviews key business principles and explores the challenges
of being in positions of authority in global organizations
|
Managers who are moving into new management positions that
require the integration of several difference functions, products,
regions, and operations
|
