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Preparing for Leadership Roles in Healthcare Settings

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As ambassadors for Medical Family Therapy (MedFT), training in leadership skills should start when we are students. Then, throughout our training and as we grow in our careers, we should be continuously building competency in research, training, policy, and practice. Through confidence and competence, leaders emerge and are able to offer innovative ways to serve diverse populations and improve systems of care. Leaders in MedFT have many roles and have been recognized in academic, community-based, and healthcare environments for their systemic lens. This chapter highlights ways to prepare for leadership roles as well as stories of challenges and triumphs experienced by leaders.

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  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry and Behavioral Science, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, SC, USA

    Kenneth Phelps

  2. General Internal Medicine Division, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Katherine Kueny

  3. Crozer-Keystone Family Medicine Residency Program, Springfield, PA, USA

    Barry Jacobs

  4. Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

    Tommie Boyd

  5. University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    John Rolland

  6. University of Minnesota, St Paul, MN, USA

    Macaran Baird & James Zubatsky

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  1. Child Development & Family Relations, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

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  2. Child Development & Family Relations, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA

    Angela Lamson

  3. Family Social Science Couple and Family Therapy Program, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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  4. School of Family Life, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

    D. Russell Crane

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Phelps, K. et al. (2014). Preparing for Leadership Roles in Healthcare Settings. In: Hodgson, J., Lamson, A., Mendenhall, T., Crane, D. (eds) Medical Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03482-9_9

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