Leadership Search and Recruitment
The process by which medical schools and teaching hospitals search
for and recruit new leaders—deans, CEOs, department chairs,
center directors, and other major administrative positions—traditionally
has followed an "academic search" model.
But commentators have asserted that "the current system is in major
disarray" and that "most search committees are ill equipped or unwilling
to undertake the labor intensive process required to truly search"
for new leaders.
Working with member medical schools and teaching hospitals, the
AAMC is developing a suite of resources and tools to help institutions
improve the process by which they search for and select institutional
leaders.
Recommended Reading
 Finding Top Talent: How to Search for Leaders in Academic Medicine
Integrative leadership teams are key to the future of every
academic medical center. "Finding Top Talent" presents
innovative ideas and promising practices to help medical schools
and teaching hospitals recruit the best leaders for the future.
The premise is that process is the key to every
successful search. The book offers best practices on an array
of process phases and aspects, from necessary preparations
before a search begins to welcoming the new leader into the
workplace environment at the conclusion.
 Leadership Recruiting Practices in Academic Medicine: How Medical Schools and Teaching Hospitals Search for New Department Chairs and Center Directors
Effective leadership teams are crucial to the success of
our organizations, yet little is known about the search and
recruitment process for these leaders beyond anecdote and
conventional wisdom. This new report details the results of two surveys
on leadership search and recruitment practices. Highlights
include the findings that the typical leadership search takes
a full year, that the use of search firms for medical school
leadership positions is uncommon, and that teaching hospital
CEOs have become more involved in the recruitment of clinical
department chairs over the last decade.
The Successful Medical School
Department Chair: A Guide to Good Institutional Practice
Seven
Fresh Ideas to Help Searches for Academic Leaders Succeed—Faculty Vitae, Winter 2007
The Search Process in Academic
Medicine: Perspectives of Executive Search Consultants (PDF)
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