Development of a national medical leadership competency framework: the Dutch approach

Background The concept of medical leadership (ML) can enhance physicians’ inclusion in efforts for higher quality healthcare. Despite ML’s spiking popularity, only a few countries have built a national taxonomy to facilitate ML competency education and training. In this paper we discuss the development of the Dutch ML competency framework with two objectives: to account for the framework’s making and to complement to known approaches of developing such frameworks. Methods We designed a research approach and analyzed data from multiple sources based on Grounded Theory. Facilitated by the Royal... Mehr ...