This presentation was delievered at the ASME conference in Brighton in 2014 with the results from the BMLS first lecture series. After it was founded in 2012. The Association for Study of Medical Education. https://www.asme.org.uk/ Wed16 mr6 1555_matthews

1. Learning to lead: can a student
society have a positive influence on
medical student career ambitions in
medical leadership?
The Birmingham Medical Leadership Society Committee
J Matthews, G Morley, W O’Driscoll, E Crossley, A Roberts, S
Bhanderi, A Werner, P Cliff, H Knox, J Court, S Minhas, S Panchal
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2. Background
• History of Medical Leadership
• Francis and Keogh reports.
• GMC, Royal College and FMLM guidance
• UoB Intercalation
• Birmingham Medical Leadership Society
(BMLS) founded in September 2013
Hamilton P, Spurgeon P, Clark J, Dent J, Armit K (2008) Engaging Doctors: Can Doctors Influence Organisational performance?
Clark, J. Medical leadership and engagement: no longer an optional extra. J Health Organ Manag. 2012;26(4-5):437-43.
Francis, R. Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry. Department of Health. ISBN: 9780102981476. 2013
Keogh, B. Transforming urgent and emergency care services in England: Urgent and Emergency Care Review. NHS England. Ref 00693. 2013
http://www.gmc-uk.org/Leadership_and_management_for_all_doctors_FINAL.pdf_47234529.pdf
http://www.institute.nhs.uk/images/documents/Guidance%20for%20Undergraduate%20Medical%20Education%20-%20Integrating%20the%20MLCF.pdf
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/workinpsychiatry/leadershipmanagement/resources.aspx
http://www.aomrc.org.uk/projects/enhancing-engagement-in-medical-leadership.html
https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/cpd/non-clinical-cpd/leadership
http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/
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3. BMLS’s Strategic Goals
1. Awareness and Knowledge of Medical
Leadership and Management (MLM)
2. Inspire and Motivate involvement in MLM
3. Enable involvement in MLM
1. To continue organising inspirational events
2. To campaign for more undergraduate teaching of MLM
3. To campaign for student selected projects in MLM
4. To campaign for an intercalation in MLM at Birmingham
5. To campaign for more MLM positions for training doctors
within the West Midlands.
BMLS’s Objectives
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4. Study Aim
• To assess whether the BMLS has increased:
– Student and junior doctor awareness of Medical
Leadership and Management (MLM).
– Motivation
– Inspiration
– Knowledge
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5. Methods
• BMLS founded in September 2013
• Free and inclusive lectures, workshops and
conference organised
• Evaluation forms
– Demographics
– Relevant, Useful, Knowledge, Motivation, Speaker
– 5 point scale
• Online
– Event Reports
– Social Media
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6. Results
• 8 events, November ‘13 to April ‘14
• >300 attendees, 127 evaluation forms (42%)
• 66 Female/ 61 Male, 78 Medical students
52%
48%
Attendee Demographics: Gender
Female male
63%
37%
Attendee Demographics: stage of training
Students Others
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7. Evaluation Form Demographics
Year of Study Count
Intercalation 8
1 3
2 10
3 9
4 34
5 14
Grand Total 78
Job Titles Count
Anaesthetic consultant 3
Anaesthetic registrar 7
Cardiology registrar 1
Clinical research fellow 1
Director of business
stratergy 1
FY1 15
FY2 8
GP ST1 2
Graduate 1
Psych CT2 1
Psych registrar 1
Registrar 6
Theatre Manager 1
Non-medical student 1
Grand Total 49
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8. 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Count
Event
How 'useful' were these events to attendees medical careers?
Very Useful
Useful
Neutral
Not useful
0 5 10 15 20
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Count
Event
How 'relevant' were these events to attendees medical careers?
Very Relevant
Relevant
Neutral
Not Relevant

9. 0 5 10 15 20
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Count
Event
Have these events increased attendees 'motivation' to
participate in management?
Greatly Increased
Increased
Neutral
Hasn't increased
0 5 10 15 20
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Count
Event
Have these events increased attendees 'management
knowledge'?
Greatly Increased
Increased
Neutral
Hasn't increased

10. 0 5 10 15 20
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Count
Event
Was the speaker 'engaging'?
Excellent
Good
Neutral

11. 0 50 100 150 200
MedSoc Societies BMLS Page
BMLS Main Site
BMLS FaceBook Group
BMLS FaceBook Page
BMLS Pinterest page
BMLS Twitter page
No of Followers (Sep-13 to July-14)
BMLSSocialMediaPages
BMLS Online Influence
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12. 0 200 400 600 800 1000
Announcement
Event 1 Summary
Event 2 Summary
Event 2 Summary FMLM
Video of Tim Smart's talk
Event 3 Summary
Event 7 Summary
Event 8 Advertising
Event 8 Summary
How to establish a medical leadership…
Interesting medical leadership papers
No of views (Sep-13 to July-14)
BMLSArticles
BMLS Online Influence
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13. Limitations
• Audience – self selected
• Attendance under reported
• Evaluation forms – self selected
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14. Discussion
• Successful first year
• Awareness has increased (offline and online)
• Events have inspired juniors and motivated
them to consider careers in MLM
• Evidence that students are keen to know more
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15. Conclusion
• Birmingham Medical Leadership Society
model is effective
• Evidence for further undergrad and junior
teaching
• Intercalations
• Junior doctor opportunities (training
pathways)
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16. References
• Hamilton P, Spurgeon P, Clark J, Dent J, Armit K (2008) Engaging Doctors: Can Doctors Influence
Organisational performance?
• Clark, J. Medical leadership and engagement: no longer an optional extra. J Health Organ Manag.
2012;26(4-5):437-43.
• Francis, R. Report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust Public Inquiry. Department of
Health. ISBN: 9780102981476. 2013
• Keogh, B. Transforming urgent and emergency care services in England: Urgent and Emergency
Care Review. NHS England. Ref 00693. 2013
• http://www.gmc-uk.org/Leadership_and_management_for_all_doctors_FINAL.pdf_47234529.pdf
• http://www.institute.nhs.uk/images/documents/Guidance%20for%20Undergraduate%20Medical%
20Education%20-%20Integrating%20the%20MLCF.pdf
• http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/workinpsychiatry/leadershipmanagement/resources.aspx
• http://www.aomrc.org.uk/projects/enhancing-engagement-in-medical-leadership.html
• https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/cpd/non-clinical-cpd/leadership
• http://www.leadershipacademy.nhs.uk/
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17. BMLS’s Strategic Goals
1. Awareness and Knowledge of Medical
Leadership and Management (MLM)
2. Inspire and Motivate involvement in MLM
3. Enable involvement in MLM
1. To continue organising inspirational events
2. To campaign for more undergraduate teaching of MLM
3. To campaign for student selected projects in MLM
4. To campaign for an intercalation in MLM at Birmingham
5. To campaign for more MLM positions for training doctors
within the West Midlands.
BMLS’s Objectives
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18. Event no Date Organisation Speaker Event Title Attendance No of Feedback Forms
1 07/11/2013 Midlands Air Ambluance Nicholas Crombie
Putting the jigsaw
together- deaneries, the
GMC, colleges,
commissioners, small
charities and big trusts 46 25
2 27/11/2013
King's NHS Foundation
Trust Tim Smart
Learning to Lead-
Preparing the next
generation of junior
doctors for management 24 8
3 05/12/2013
Heart of England NHS
Foundation Trust Mark Newbold
Why should doctors get
involved in
management? 26 7
4 22/01/2014
Health Services
Management Centre,
UoB Jon Glasby
Has the NHS lost the
ability to care?’ –
responding to the Mid
Staffs inquiry 30 15
5 10/02/2014 UoB Careers Network Jenny Mullins-White
Analyse your personality
and what this means for
your medical career! 37 15
6 27/02/2014
UHB Department of
Trauma Keith Porter
Creating a Major Trauma
Unit at the UHB Trust 46 11
7 08/03/2014 QFI Consulting Alex Knight
Pride and Joy: the role of
medical leaders in
transforming the NHS 26 12
8 26/04/2014 FMLM
Jane Povey, Elizabeth
Hughes, Carmen Soto,
Faisel Sheikh, Matthew
Cooke, Simon Tallowin,
Kenneth Deacon,
Leadership-an integral
part of a career in
healthcare 70 34
Total 305 127

19. Website Address Description
No of Followers
(01/09/2013-11/07/14)
http://uobmedsoc.com/social/societies/birmingham-
medical-leadership-society/
MedSoc Societies BMLS
Page
http://uobmedleadership.wordpress.com/ BMLS Main Site 107
https://www.facebook.com/groups/676838225676202/ BMLS FaceBook Group 93
https://www.facebook.com/UoBMedLeaders?ref_type=
bookmark
BMLS FaceBook Page 32
http://www.pinterest.com/bmedicalleaders/ BMLS Pinterest page 9
https://twitter.com/UoBMedLeaders BMLS Twitter page 179
Results: Online Influence

20. Website Address Description
No of Views
(01/09/2013-
11/07/14)
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/the-new-birmingham-students-medical-leadership-society Announcement 639
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/creating-the-pre-hospital-emergency-medicine-service-in-the-west-
midlands-the-inaugural-lecture-of-the-birmingham-students-medical-leadership-society
Event 1 Summary 231
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/mr-tim-smart-learning-to-lead-birmingham-medical-leadership-society-
lecture-2
Event 2 Summary 238
https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/news-policy-and-opinion/opinion/blogs/mr-tim-smart-%E2%80%9Clearning-to-
lead%E2%80%9D-birmingham-medical-leadership
Event 2 Summary FMLM 480
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yZSX4LIGoI Video of Tim Smart's talk 39
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/dr-mark-newbold-why-should-doctors-get-involved-in-management-
understanding-the-problems-birmingham-medical-leadership-society-lecture-3
Event 3 Summary 699
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/doing-more-with-less-own-pride-and-joy Event 7 Summary 456
https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/events/leadership-an-integral-part-of-a-career-in-healthcare Event 8 Advertising 869
https://www.fmlm.ac.uk/news-policy-and-opinion/opinion/articles/fmlm-in-the-midlands-and-east-a-second-opinion Event 8 Summary 92
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/come-to-the-dark-side
How to establish a medical
leadership society
243
https://www.meducation.net/blog_posts/surprising-places-to-find-medical-leadership
Interesting medical
leadership papers
163
Total views 4149