TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose Effective clinical leadership is crucial to avoid failings in the delivery of safe health care, particularly during a period of increasing scrutiny and cost-constraints for the National Health Service (NHS). However, there is a paucity of leadership training for health-care students, the future leaders of the NHS, which is due in part to overfilled curricula. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of student-led leadership training for the benefit of fellow students.Design/methodology/approach To address this training gap, a group of multiprofessional students organised a series of large-group seminars and small-group workshops given by notable health-care leaders at a London university over the course of two consecutive years.Findings The majority of students had not previously received any formal exposure to leadership training. Feedback post-events were almost universally positive, though students expressed a preference for experiential teaching of leadership. Working with university faculty, an inaugural essay prize was founded and student members were given the opportunity to complete internships in real-life quality improvement projects.Originality/value Student-led teaching interventions in leadership can help to fill an unmet teaching need and help to better equip the next generation of health-care workers for future roles as leaders within the NHS.
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SN  - 1751-1879
DO  - 10.1108/LHS-03-2017-0018
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/LHS-03-2017-0018
AU  - Sheriff Ibrahim Hasanyn Naim
AU  - Ahmed Faheem
AU  - Jivraj Naheed
AU  - Wan Jonathan C.M.
AU  - Sampford Jade
AU  - Ahmed Na’eem
PY  - 2017
Y1  - 2017/01/01
TI  - Student-led leadership training for undergraduate healthcare students
T2  - Leadership in Health Services
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 428
EP  - 431
Y2  - 2024/04/27
ER  -