Academic doctors overestimate their leadership skills, researchers find

Abstract

Medical academics overestimate their leadership skills, according to new research which says that they may need more formal leadership education. A study found that self perception of leadership behaviour was “overinflated” while there were no significant links between particular leadership styles and healthcare research performance. Corresponding author Vanash Patel said, “We were aiming to link performance and leadership but I think there were probably other factors that contributed to academic performance—more contextual factors—that we couldn’t measure.” The research, published in the Postgraduate Medical Journal , involved 90 faculty …