To find out if leadership is an important issue to budding endocrinologists, as well as fellowship program directors, the Endocrine Society is co-sponsoring the Leadership Training Survey.
The Society is working with Col Mark W. True, MD, USAF, Medical Corps of the San Antonio Military Medical Center, who is the lead author the Leadership Training Survey. He is a member of the Clinical Endocrine Education Committee (CEEC) that is exploring the need for leadership training as part of the endocrinology fellowship curricula. The survey, launched on March 30, is targeting fellowship program directors, fellows and recent graduates and supports the work of the Leadership Development Task Force.
“A lot of people feel like this is an important subject and needs to be addressed,” True told ENDO TV at ENDO 2016 in Boston. “In the military, our fellowship graduates stay in our system and they often serve as solo endocrinologists, leading clinics in big medical centers. As I became a program director I realized early on that we’re not really training our fellows adequately for those roles.”
In many hospitals or medical centers, endocrine care is delivered by primary care physicians for major conditions such as diabetes, obesity, or thyroid issues, but according to True, it is up to the endocrinologist to lead delivery of care in terms of training others who would be giving the care. “The idea that leadership [skills and abilities] are only for program chairs or leaders of a hospital really needs to change,” he added. “All physicians that enter the clinical or research worlds need to be viewing themselves as leaders in some capacity and we need to be training them for that.”
The Society is responsible for data gathering, and True, together with his team in San Antonio, is responsible for data analysis. Once the data has been analyzed, it will be published in one of the Society journals.
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