Open AccessNecessity of Leadership Development in Allied Health Education Programs
Author(s) -
Matthew Kutz
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the internet journal of allied health sciences and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1540-580X
DOI - 10.46743/1540-580x/2004.1045
Subject(s) - leadership development , passion , neuroleadership , educational leadership , health care , public relations , leadership studies , health professionals , medical education , servant leadership , leadership , sociology , political science , psychology , nursing , pedagogy , medicine , leadership style , law , psychotherapist
Why should educational programs teach leadership, and why should universities and colleges who offer allied health care programs be concerned with training future clinicians to be leaders? Leadership development is a topic wrought with passion among business professionals and educators alike. Leadership is something everybody needs and it remains vague and ambiguous. Leadership is a mystical, almost ethereal, quality that you cannot define, yet know when you see. Advancing the allied health care professions and the members of the allied health care community is proving to be difficult without the necessary leadership skills.