Principles of academic medical leadership

There has been an overwhelming demand to improve medical practices and services through using evidence-based medicine, and leadership has been increasingly recognized as an important contributory factor to the success of academic medical organizations and institutions and healthcare organizations. Therefore, there has been an increasing interest in the practices of medical leadership and academic medical leadership, and also in identifying the qualities of the genuine medical leaders and academic medical leaders.This book describes a developmental training course aiming at providing the participants the general principles of academic medical leadership and providing them with the essential academic knowledge needed by board certified physicians. This book can be of great interest for board certified physicians who are looking for advancing their academic stature, and also for medical professors and expert trainers in the field of medicine.