Leadership

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 27^th 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.

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