Education and Training for Health Professional Leadership

Education and Training for Health Professional

Leadership

Professor Dr Looi Lai-Meng

Co-Chair, InterAcademy Medical Panel (IAMP)

Senior Fellow, Academy of Sciences Malaysia and Distinguished Professor, University of Malaya

The InterAcademy

Medical Panel

• is the global network of the world's medical academies and medical sections of academies of science and engineering

• has 70 member academies

• is committed to improving health world-wide

• IAMP activities focus on institutional collaboration to strengthen the role of all academies

– to alleviate the health burdens of the world's poorest people; – to build scientific capacity for health;

– to provide independent evidence-based scientific advice on promoting health science and health care policy to national governments and global organizations.

The effectiveness of academies

to address challenges and bring

about change depends on….

• Good science; good advice

• Proactive collaboration

• Sustainability of leadership

In spite of its importance, relatively little

systematic investment has addressed the

challenge of leadership development in the

health sector.

Today’s World is far from well…

21

Century problems

• Gaps and inequities in health

• Health security threats with demographic &

epidemiological transitions

• Complex health systems, rising costs & demands

Graduants ill-equipped to face 21

_{Century challenges}

Education & training in professional silos

A Global Independent Commission:

Education of Health Professionals for the

21st Century

• Co-Chairs:

– Julio Frenk (Dean, Harvard School of Public Health)

– Lincoln Chen (President, China Medical Board)

• 20 commissioners (international)

• Research Team, Advisory bodies & Youth

Commissioners

• Sponsors:

– Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation & China Medical Board

• 20 professional and academic

leaders from diverse countries

Pakistan, USA, Canada, UK, Bangladesh, Peru,

South Africa, Lebanon, China, India, Uganda, etc

– Shared vision for Health professional education – Beyond confines of national borders and

professional silos.

– Global outlook, a multiprofessional perspective, and systems approach

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR A NEW CENTURY:

Transforming Education Systems in an interdependent world

Symposium organized by:

•Harvard School of Public Health •China Medical Board

•The Lancet 30 Nov – 1 Dec 2010

Launch of Lancet Commission Report

Landscaping, identifying gaps and opportunities, and offering recommendations for reform

Transformative learning

Step-wise instructional reforms

• Informative learning:

– acquiring knowledge and skills -

produce experts.

• Formative learning:

– socialising students around values -

produce

professionals

•

Transformative learning

– developing leadership attributes -

produce

enlightened change agents.

IAMP is a partner with China Medical Board and

the (US) Institute of Medicine in promoting

global dissemination of the report

• Discussion of report’s conclusions and recommendations at a national level.

• Encourage regional networks of academies to address these issues, and function as forum for information exchange and coordination.

HEALTH PROFESSIONALS FOR A NEW CENTURY:

Transforming Education Systems in an interdependent world IAMP Academies involved in

dissemination:

•The Bangladesh Academy of Sciences •The Cameroon Academy of Sciences •Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences •The Academy of Sciences Malaysia •The Nigerian Academy of Science •Academy of Science of South Africa •National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka

•The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Sciences of Sri Lanka

Action:

•Align curriculum with challenges •Inter-professional team approach •National strategies &

recommendations

IAMP Young Physician Leaders (YPL)

Programme

• foster “a new generation of leaders in global health for

the 21st Century”.

• develop a critical mass of young physician leaders in a

learning and action network worldwide

• challenge member academies to support young

physicians in their countries and to strengthen their

leadership skills.

Launch in 2011 in conjunction with the World

Health Summit (WHS) in Berlin, Germany

YPL 2011

22 participants from 18

countries, 14 from low/middle-income countries and 8 women Supported by:

•The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of

Sciences and Humanities (BBAW)

•Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin •IAP – the global network of science

academies

•M8 Alliance of Academic Health Centers,

and Medical Universities

•WHS - The World Health Summit

IAMP YPL

2012

1. ABDELMAWGOUD Moaz A. Egypt 2. ABIERA Joycie Eulah Philippines 3. AGAMPODI Suneth Sri Lanka 4. BAFICA Andre Brazil

5. CALIBO Anthony Philippines 6. DRAGER Luciano Brazil 8. LAHER Fatima South Africa

9. LAM Carolyn Lam Su Ping Singapore 11. LIM Wei-Yen Singapore

12. LYSSENKO Valeriya Sweden 13. MAIER Anna-Karina Germany

14. ODUBANJO Mosebolatan Olatokunboh Nigeria 15. PELEG Anton Australia

16. RABIU Taopheeq Bamidele Nigeria 17. SHAMSUDIN Norashikin Malaysia 18. SIMON Melissa Andrea USA 19. YOUNG Taryn South Africa

YPL 2013

8 April

YPL Asia Region 2013

Singapore

18/19October (TBC)

YPL 2013

Key elements of YPL programme

• Pre-event assessments

• Discuss models for leadership

• Create learning network among YPLs to share career experiences and challenges in their countries

• Develop individual action plan for personal leadership development following the workshop.

• Exposure to a leadership panel

• Participation in World Health Summit - outstanding scientific and policy programme and unprecedented networking opportunities. • Mentoring by IAMP EC and member academies

What YPLs have to say…

• “This exposure was like a window through which we took a glance into the future”

• “I learnt that despite the various differences in society, some

management and leadership challenges still cut across the board”.

• “We learnt from each other as much as we learnt from the Senior leaders.”

• “I have identified what my personal strengths/skills are and how I could use these to become a better leader”

• “ …the opportunity to meet people both at my same level of career development and established medical leaders, creating a network on which to rely in the future”.

• “I have identified what I could do to gain support from various institutions around me. “

Some outcomes….

• e publication in The Lancet, describing YPL experience

and value. (

http://tinyurl.com/Lancet-YPL-iamp

)

• Involvement in Wing of Zock (an online idea exchange

for students, residents, faculty, and administrators at

medical schools and teaching hospitals)

• Bangladesh Academy of Sciences has agreed to initiate

programmes involving young medical professionals

• Further joint publications on the way…

• Extending YPL programme

Education and Training for Health Professional Leadership:

Three key messages

• Sustainability in leadership is crucial to manage emerging challenges and bring about change.

• IAMP academies have been actively deliberating the Global Commission’s proposed reforms on education of health

professionals, addressing leadership and teamwork issues, and formulating local action plans.

• The IAMP YPL programme has been developed to foster a new generation of physician leaders. Member academies contribute by mentoring their YPLs, strengthening their leadership skills and

For more information

www.iamp-online.org