%0 Journal Article
%T Educational climate seems unrelated to leadership skills of clinical consultants responsible of postgraduate medical education in clinical departments
%A Bente Malling
%A Lene S Mortensen
%A Albert JJ Scherpbier
%A Charlotte Ringsted
%J BMC Medical Education
%D 2010
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1472-6920-10-62
%X The study was a trans-sectional correlation study. The educational climate was investigated by a survey among all doctors (specialists and trainees) in the departments. Leadership skills of the consultants responsible for education were measured by multi-source feedback scores from heads of departments, peer consultants, and trainees.Doctors from 42 clinical departments representing 21 specialties participated. The response rate of the educational climate investigation was moderate 52% (420/811), Response rate was high in the multisource-feedback process 84.3% (420/498). The educational climate was scored quite high mean 3.9 (SD 0.3) on a five-point Likert scale. Likewise the leadership skills of the clinical consultants responsible for education were considered good, mean 5.4 (SD 0.6) on a seven-point Likert scale. There was no significant correlation between the scores concerning the educational climate and the scores on leadership skills, r = 0.17 (p = 0.29).This study found no relation between the educational climate and the leadership skills of the clinical consultants responsible for postgraduate medical education in clinical departments with the instruments used. Our results indicate that consultants responsible for education are in a weak position to influence the educational climate in the clinical department. Further studies are needed to explore, how heads of departments and other factors related to the clinical organisation could influence the educational climate.Postgraduate medical education (PGME) is a work-based education where learning and teaching takes place in a clinical context. On the one hand the young doctor (trainee) is under education and on the other hand he is a member of the staff in the clinical department. The clinical departments face the challenge of creating an educational environment that is supportive and learning-oriented [1] and at the same time meeting the demands from society to deliver efficient clinical services and research
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