Background: Literature on residency chief resident leadership are limited to internal medicine and surgical leadership training, family medicine program director and chief residents’ view, and the self-reported survey of Psychiatry chief residents.
Methods: Survey was sent to all faculty and residents in 2011 and in 2016: 16 questions on the leadership qualities scored on a 7-likert scale; one question ranking 10 leadership qualities.
Results: 16 questions: Views of ideal qualities in an ACR across the three generations in order of importance per generation Y
Boomer Generation X
Generation Y p
Good team
member
6.3
6.6
6.5
0.74
Resident
advocate
5.9
6.3
6.4
0.43
Role
model
6.4
6.5
6.2
0.38
Patient & excellent teaching skills
6.0
6.1
6.1
0.72
Recognizes individual
contributions 6.0
5.9
6.0
0.28
Welfare of team ahead of
indiviual 6.2
5.8
6.0
0.86
Enable other to act
5.8
5.8
5.9
0.38
Based on shared
vision
5.3
5.9
5.8
0.17
Strong clinical
skills
5.8
5.7
5.7
0.077
Each PGY-4 responsible for their
services
4.9 5.0
5.5
0.24
Challenge current
process\" 4.6
4.7
5.0
0.12
Makes excellent decision that
other
follow
4.5
4.5
4.7
0.97
Benevolent
autocrat
3.5 3.7
4.1
0.83
Above average CROEG exams 5.0
4.6
3.9
0.35
ACR responsible for all
disgreements 3.7
4.0
3.8
0.50
Not change status quo 2.7
3.1 3.6
0.04
Ranking of top ten leadership qualities: Top three leadership qualities ranked by Boomer (faculty) were resident advocate, participation, and compassion; ranked by generation X (Faculty and resident) were compassion, fairness and participation; ranked by generation Y were role model, motivating, and participating as being the most important qualities in an ACR
Discussions: Across three generations, Ob Gyn physicians placed similar importance on team member, resident advocate, role model, teaching skills, welfare of the team and teaching skills for ACR leadership qualities. Boomer generation placed more values on CREOG scores, while generation Y valued challenged current process, changing status quo and shared vision.
Keywords: Communication Skills, Leadership Organizational Development, Mentoring, Professionalism, Residents As Teachers
Topics: CREOG & APGO Annual Meeting, 2017, Resident, Faculty, Residency Director, Residency Coordinator, Professionalism, Interpersonal & Communication Skills, GME, Faculty Development,
Tony Wen, Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston; Sherry Bastien, BA; Nicole Wen, MA; Sangeeta Jain, Maternal Fetal Medicine; Shannon Clark, MD; Mary Munn, MD
