An e-Leadership Training Academy for Practicing Clinicians in Primary Care and Public Health Settings

Problem There is a lack of leadership training in health care despite it being an essential competency for providers to deliver accessible, high quality healthcare and navigate a continually changing system. The barriers to adding leadership development to the various stages of medical training are numerous. A specific barrier is the lack of access to resources for this training. This group aimed to tackle this barrier within post-graduate medical education and training through their e- Leadership Academy. Approach The e-Leadership Academy was developed as a partnership between the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and Clinical Directors Network, Inc. (CDN). The result of the collaboration was a virtual leadership academy, offered over a 10-month period that covered the fundamental concepts and skills for leading within a clinical practice. The audience for this program were clinicians and staff of community health centers and health departments in the United States. Outcomes For the results of this article, primary outcome analysis was of participant responses to both formative and summative evaluations that took place throughout and at the end of the course. Results were used to assess course quality, participant satisfaction, participant engagement, and provide data about future offerings that would be useful to the target audience. Next Steps The group proposes future training programs could measure the changes in the behavior of teams and clinical outcomes utilizing expanded evaluations. Proposed plans for expansion of the e- Leadership Academy include developing additional modules and the potential integration of an in- person component. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. ### Funding Statement Funded in part by: AHRQ Grant #1-P30-HS-021667 ### Author Declarations All relevant ethical guidelines have been followed; any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained and details of the IRB/oversight body are included in the manuscript. Yes All necessary patient/participant consent has been obtained and the appropriate institutional forms have been archived. Yes I understand that all clinical trials and any other prospective interventional studies must be registered with an ICMJE-approved registry, such as ClinicalTrials.gov. I confirm that any such study reported in the manuscript has been registered and the trial registration ID is provided (note: if posting a prospective study registered retrospectively, please provide a statement in the trial ID field explaining why the study was not registered in advance). Yes I have followed all appropriate research reporting guidelines and uploaded the relevant EQUATOR Network research reporting checklist(s) and other pertinent material as supplementary files, if applicable. Yes The data that support the findings of this study are available from the co-first authors, upon reasonable request.