Leading Across Health Professions: Reflections on Opportunities and Challenges.

Autor: Rivkin A; Fairleigh Dickinson University School of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Florham Park, NJ, USA. Electronic address: rivkin@fdu.edu., DiVall MV; Northeastern University, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: m.divall@northeastern.edu.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of pharmaceutical education [Am J Pharm Educ] 2024 Nov; Vol. 88 (11), pp. 101300. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Oct 02.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpe.2024.101300
Abstrakt: Pharmacy leaders are well equipped to serve as academic leaders overseeing additional health profession programs and/or faculty. Organizing multiple health professions programs under one umbrella offers a number of opportunities, such as efficiencies in financial and human resources, expanded and more diverse leadership talent which offers advantages in succession planning, organizational effectiveness in its operations, expanded opportunities for interprofessional education and collaborations in research and scholarship, greater visibility as a partner for establishing pipeline agreements and clinical partners affiliations, and personal professional development and growth for those in senior leadership positions. However, pharmacy academic leaders with oversight over multiple health professions programs and faculty also face challenges in understanding the professional identities and culture of their faculty, complexities of equity of workload across numerous departments, mistrust from departments other than pharmacy, and their own increased workload and possible burnout. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has recently established a new Multi-Professional Health Care Administrative Leaders Connect Community, which should be further promoted to increase membership. Programming to allow additional networking, sharing of best practices, mentorship and professional development of leaders who oversee, or aspire to oversee, multiple health professions programs can be beneficial. Further research can describe different models of organizing multiple health professions programs and identify best practices for successful organizational and operational structures.
Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest None declared.
(Copyright © 2024 American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)
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