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The Leadership of Emergency Medicine
Author(s) -
Goldfrank Lewis
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/j.1553-2712.1999.tb00132.x
Subject(s) - medicine , emergency department , emergency physician , citation , gold standard (test) , center (category theory) , library science , psychiatry , computer science , chemistry , crystallography
Understand the difference between leadership and management, and recognize competencies that make a good emergency department leader. Studies of leadership have produced little evidence to explain what works, but more recent studies of emotional intelligence can be used to develop or improve leadership skills. Good leaders are risk takers who use occasional failures to learn to become better leaders.