LEADERSHIP WORKING GROUP
THE LEADERSHIP WG
AIM
Our aim is to provide trainees an opportunity to develop their leadership skills.
BACKGROUND & MISSION
The Leadership Working Group (WG) is the newest EFPT WG and started at the 27th EFPT Forum in Prague, 2019.
Leadership skills are important for every psychiatrist to deliver, improve and evaluate mental health care. Being a good leader is a matter of skills, personal experience and particular character traits. Although parts are inborn, a lot can and has to be learnt. Beyond basic leadership skills for some, it is essential to get further training and to utilise these skills to take on leadership roles in clinical and organizational settings.
However, throughout Europe, the acquisition of basic or more advanced leadership skills is very seldom part of the professional training. According to a short survey we conducted less than a third of European countries claim to have any kind of leadership skills courses in their curriculum of psychiatry training.
Therefore, next to support the incorporation of leadership skills in national training curricula we aim to countersteer the current lack of training by organising training possibilities, collecting and sharing useful resources and supporting one another to grow in leadership competence.
PROJECTS (WE WORK ON AND) YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN
- Online leadership training sessions and discussions with inspiring leaders
- Collecting and sharing of useful resources
- Development of a leadership skills workbook
- Survey on incorporated leadership training in the national residency programs
MEMBERS
Ana Isabel Samouco – Portugal
Anna Sofie Hansen – Denmark
Annie Leedo – Estonia
Asilay Şeker – Turkey
Charles So – France
Irina Frankova – Ukraine
Jesper Noergaard Kjaer – Denmark
Joanna Marinova – Bulgaria
João Costa Pedro – Portugal
Kaother Jemaa – Tunisia
Krista Bruna – Latvia
Laura Fragner – Austria
Mário J. Santos – Portugal
Matthäus Fellinger – Austria
Natalia Stepanova – Russia
Nikola Žaja – Croatia
Raimund Oberndorfer – Austria
Sonya Lagutina – Ukraine
Thomas Gargot – France
Zetti Azvee – Ireland
CHAIR/ CO CHAIR
FORMER CHAIRS
Mário J. Santos – Portugal (2021-2022)
Matthäus Fellinger – Austria (2019-2020)
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