New forms of leadership for medical and health professions' education: Exploring collaborative and servant leadership, values and spirituality

Date: 1 day event - 30 Jun 2010 from 09:30 until 16:30

Aims

This workshop provides the opportunity for staff and education developers in medicine, veterinary medicine, health and social work professions to develop and enhance their leadership knowledge and skills, to network with colleagues and to explore issues relating to values, spirituality and ethics in medical and healthcare education.

Activities

Programme

10.00: Introduction to the workshop participants and activities

10.20: Collaborative, transformational and servant leadership: definitions and meanings

Emotional intelligence

11.15: Coffee

11.30: Spiritual intelligence and spirituality in leadership

12.00: Sharing practice: how do we embed these concepts and strategies into curricula?

12.30: Lunch

13.15: Working across boundaries: challenges and opportunities

Ethics and values: personal, professional and organisational

14.45: Tea

15.00: Putting theory into practice: what does this mean for me, for my students and for my team?

16.00: Review and close

Proposed outcomes

At the end of the day, participants will have had opportunities to:

? Enhance their understanding and knowledge of leadership
? Explore how spirituality and value-led leadership may be embedded in medical and healthcare curricula
? Relate an understanding of these forms of leadership to education and their own professional practice

Facilitator background

Professor Judy McKimm is Pro Dean, Health and Social Practice, Unitec New Zealand. She holds visiting chairs at the University of Bedfordshire, Swansea University and Oceania University of Medicine, Samoa and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She co-wrote the ASME Understanding Medical Education Guide: Educational Leadership (with Tim Swanwick), has published widely on leadership and faculty development and runs many successful leadership programmes and events in the UK and overseas. Prior to working in New Zealand, she was Associate Dean, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Postgraduate Medical School, Senior Adviser (Accreditation and Standards) at the Higher Education Academy and Director of Undergraduate Medicine and Head of Curriculum Development at Imperial College, London.

Professor Bernard Moss is Professor of Spirituality and Social Work and Director of the Centre for Health and Spirituality at Staffordshire University. Bernard's teaching excellence was recognised by the Higher Education Academy in 2004 with the awarding of a National Teaching Fellowship, and also in 2008 when he was made a Senior Fellow of the Academy. Through his writing and his conference presentations he is keen to explore the secular as well as the religious aspects of contemporary spirituality to a wide range of people-work.

Target audience

Educational, academic, faculty and staff developers working in medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, allied health and social work contexts, particularly those with an interest in leadership, spirituality, professional values and ethics.

Book a place

Recommended hotels near location

Tavistock Hotel

Tavistock Square
London
WC1H 9EU

Tel: (020) 7636 8383

Website: http://www.imperialhotels.co.uk/tavistock1_hotel.aspx

County Hotel

14 Upper Woburn Place
Bloomsbury
London
WC1H 0HY

Tel: (020) 7387 5544‎

Website: http://www.hotelclub.net/hotel.reservations/County_Hotel_London.htm

Hilton London Euston

17-18 Upper Woburn Place
Bloomsbury
London
WC1H 0HT

Tel: (020) 79434500

Website: http://www.hilton.co.uk/euston

Venue & Location

Woburn House, London

20 Tavistock Square
London

WC1H 9HQ

Resources

• The_8_S_model_Bernard_Moss.ppt  
• The_8_S_model.ppt  
• MEDEV_new_forms_of_leadership_JM_BM_30June2010.ppt  
• Exploring_collaborative_Bernard_Moss.ppt  
• Exploring_collaborative.ppt  

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* This workshop is co-hosted, co-hosted events are facilitated and delivered jointly by MEDEV and another institution(s).